INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

NAME : Fahni Junizar

STUDENT ID : 17220200

CLASS : Crossing 2017

INSTITUTE KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN SILIWANGI

2018
 MODERN LITERARY FORMS REPORT
Title
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

A. IDENTIFY

Title : Star Wars : The last Jedi

Director : Rian Johnson

Writer : Rian Johnson, George Lucas

Publisher : Walt Disney Picture, Lucas Film

Year : 2017

B. FORM

Setting : The following events took place in the year 34 ABY, also known as 3311 LY
according to the Lothal Calendar.

Lothal Calender : The Lothal Calendar was a calendar used on the planet of
Lothal, in the Outer Rim Territories. It used the LY ("Lothal Year") notation.
Although the exact origins of that calendar had been forgotten by the time of the
Galactic Empire, its starting point was dated to 3245 years before Sheev
Palpatine's rise to Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.

Character : 1. Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, a powerful Jedi Master who has been in
self-imposed exile on the planet Ahch-To. Hamill voices Dobbu Scay, named
after the film's editor, Bob Ducsay. During the Canto Bight scene, the character
mistakes BB-8 as a slot machine.

2. Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, twin sister to Luke, former princess of
Alderaan, and a leading general in the Resistance. This was Fisher's final film
role before her death on December 27, 2016.

3. Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke's disciple, who is strong
with the dark side of the Force and leader to the Knights of Ren. He is the son of
Han Solo and Leia Organa, nephew of Luke Skywalker, and the grandson of
Anakin Skywalker.

4. Daisy Ridley as Rey, a highly Force-sensitive scavenger from the desert planet
Jakku, who joined the Resistance and goes to find Luke Skywalker.
 5. John Boyega as Finn, a former stormtrooper of the First Order who defected to
the Resistance.

6. Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron, a high-ranking X-wing fighter pilot in the

Resistance.

7. Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke, the leader of the First Order and Kylo
Ren's master.

8. Lupita Nyong'o as Maz Kanata, a pirate and ally of the Resistance.

9. Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, the former head of the First Order's
Starkiller Base.

10. Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, a humanoid protocol droid in the service of Leia
Organa.

11. Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma, the commander of the First Order's
stormtroopers.

12. Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, a member of the Resistance who works in
maintenance.

13. Laura Dern as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, an officer in the Resistance.

14. Frank Oz as Yoda, the deceased former Grand Master of the Jedi, and Luke's
wise former mentor, who appears as a Force-ghost.

15. Benicio del Toro as DJ, an underworld codebreaker.

Summary : Resistance forces, led by General Leia Organa, flee D'Qar when a First Order
fleet arrives. Poe Dameron leads a costly counterattack that destroys a First Order
dreadnought, but after the Resistance escapes to hyperspace, the First Order
tracks them and attacks the Resistance convoy. Kylo Ren, Leia's son, hesitates to
fire on the lead Resistance ship after sensing his mother's presence, but his TIE
fighter wingmen destroy the bridge, incapacitating Leia. Disapproving of new
leader Vice Admiral Holdo's passive strategy, Poe helps Finn, BB-8, and
mechanic Rose Tico embark on a secret mission to disable the tracking device.

Meanwhile, Rey arrives on Ahch-To with Chewbacca and R2-D2 aboard the
Millennium Falcon to recruit Luke Skywalker to the Resistance. Disillusioned by
his failure to train Kylo as a Jedi, and under self-imposed exile from the Force,
Luke refuses to help—even after he learns of Han Solo's death at Kylo's hands—
and believes that the Jedi should become extinct. Unbeknownst to Luke, Rey and
Kylo communicate through the Force, puzzling the two enemies. As the rival
Force users learn about each other, each has future visions of themselves as
partners.

R2-D2 persuades Luke to train Rey. After Kylo tells Rey about what happened
between him and Luke that caused him to choose the dark side of the Force, Luke
 confesses that he momentarily contemplated killing Kylo upon sensing that
Supreme Leader Snoke was corrupting him, causing Kylo to destroy Luke's new
Jedi Order in retaliation. Convinced that Kylo can be redeemed, Rey leaves
Ahch-To to confront Kylo without Luke. Luke prepares to burn down the Ahch-
To Jedi temple and library, but hesitates. Yoda's ghost appears and destroys the
temple by summoning a thunderstorm, claiming Rey has all she needs to learn,
and encourages Luke to learn from his failure.

Holdo reveals her plan to discreetly evacuate the remaining Resistance members
using small transports. Believing her actions cowardly and risky, Poe leads a
mutiny. Finn, Rose, and BB-8 travel to the Canto Bight casino and acquire the
help of the hacker DJ, who says he can help them disable the tracking device.
They infiltrate Snoke's ship, but all but BB-8 are captured by Captain Phasma.
Meanwhile, Rey lands on the ship, and Kylo brings her to Snoke, who reveals
that he facilitated the mental connection between her and Kylo as part of a plan to
destroy Luke. Ordered to kill Rey, Kylo instead kills Snoke and, with Rey,
defeats Snoke's guards. Rey believes that Kylo has returned to the light side of the
Force, but he instead invites her to rule the galaxy with him, which she refuses.
They use the Force to fight for possession of Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber,
which splits in two.

Leia recovers and stuns Poe, allowing the evacuation to begin. Holdo remains on
the ship to mislead Snoke's fleet as the others flee to an abandoned Rebel
Alliance base on Crait. DJ reveals the Resistance's plan to the First Order, and the
evacuation transports are slowly destroyed. Holdo sacrifices herself by ramming
Snoke's fleet at lightspeed; Rey escapes in the chaos, while Kylo declares himself
Supreme Leader. BB-8 frees Finn and Rose, who escape after defeating Phasma,
and they join survivors on Crait. When the First Order arrives, Poe, Finn, and
Rose attack with old speeders. Rey and Chewbacca draw the TIE fighters away
with the Falcon, while Rose stops Finn from completing a suicide run against the
enemy siege cannon, which penetrates the Resistance fortress.

Luke appears and confronts the First Order to enable surviving Resistance
members to escape. Kylo orders the First Order's forces to fire on Luke to no
effect. He then engages Luke in a lightsaber duel; upon striking Luke, Kylo
realizes he has been fighting a Force projection of him. Rey uses the Force to help
the Resistance escape on the Falcon. Luke, exhausted, dies peacefully on Ahch-
To. His death is sensed by Rey and Leia, but Leia tells surviving rebels that the
Resistance has all it needs to rise again. At Canto Bight, one of the children who
helped Finn and Rose escape grabs a broom with the Force and gazes into space.

Moral Of the Story : Film is the most dominant cultural force of our time, Star Wars one of
the most popular myths in the history of humanity, It is a touchstone, how
we share ideas and prompt discussions.

C. Conclusion

For my conclusion i think Acts Three and Four are great because the choices are earned and
difficult, and there are real consequences to those choices.
Thematically, I do love the “democratization of the hero” talked about in articles going around,
expressed beautifully in the brief epilogue with the children and the broom stick moment. The
kids are a bit too Disney-fied for my taste (I felt like I was suddenly watching Hook), but it is
still impactful.

This film snatches the Force from the jaws of the lone “chosen one” and gives it to the people.

From a saga standpoint, we get to watch The Rebellion be reborn. And it isn’t simply “let’s blow
something up, get a victory, and in the next episode there will be a Rebellion formed” — this is
the story of the actual formation. The spark igniting the fire.

We go on a kind of coming-of-age journey with the people who will very soon be leading The
Rebellion, witnessing their struggles, sacrifices, and failures…and see them rise up and inspire
others. Not by fighting what they hate, but by saving what they love.

And I am really intrigued by where they leave Rey’s character. She’s clearly experienced a lot,
but perhaps hasn’t had the chance to really fail and really learn from those failures. What do the
Jedi texts that she saved and brought with her mean? Did she not fully embrace the idea of
letting go of the past, or is it a sign that she wants to aspire to the same ideals of the Jedi of old?
Tune in next time!

For a film that needed to make money and sell toys, it has some really fantastic, progressive
elements to it. I feel like it both aimed higher and hit the mark most of the time.