SuitabookStar Wars The Empire Strikes Back - So You Want to Be a Jedi?
Adam Gidwitz
- Reading
- Try the opening aloud or sample the audiobook, then pause after a Jedi Lesson to discuss how the retelling’s fairy-tale choices and direct address change the familiar Star Wars experience.
- Themes
- Participatory storytelling: The reader is usually placed in Luke’s role, while sections follow Han, Leia or Imperial commanders from a more distant perspective. The direct address offers an unusual sense of participation, but the shifts may reduce closeness to some characters.
- Jedi practice: Between chapters, “Jedi Lessons” present exercises in concentration and meditation, alongside Luke’s training on Dagobah. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Retelling and reinterpretation: The familiar story is recast with fairy-tale elements and changes to established scenes, dialogue and apparent timing. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Worth knowing
- A Dagobah training episode includes Luke being chased by a giant wild Elephun. The book also includes concentration and meditation exercises between chapters; the wider level of peril is not clear.