Sample 2 Entry [2] 1st scenes of Star Wars. Droids. Coincidence as an agent of the Force to bring about what is possible versus what is probable.
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From the entries for Episode IV: A New Hope Stepping back in time from this book’s first entry to the very first minutes ever seen of Star Wars, there is a space battle going on and two droids are caught in the middle of it. The Rebel’s blockade runner, Tantive IV, is pulled in by the Star Destroyer's powerful tractor beam. Princess Leia Organa makes one final and desperate attempt to deliver the Death Star's blueprints to the Rebel Forces by sending R2-D2 to Tatooine to find Obi-Wan Kenobi and enlist his help. Out of the coincidental happenings of the adventures of the small droid R2-D2 and his tag-along partner C-3PO, the virtually impossible destruction of an evil, oppressive, tyrannical Empire by a tiny band of bold souls is set into motion. Star Wars begins with the barely possible story of the droids on their quest. It keeps adding and adding to the seemingly insurmountable tasks of those who serve the good side of the Force. Without intervention by the Force, R2-D2 and C-3PO probably would never have reached Obi-Wan Kenobi; Luke Skywalker would probably still be stuck on his Uncle Owen’s moisture farm indefinitely; and Han Solo most likely would be captured or killed by Jabba the Hutt’s henchmen. Flannery O’Connor writes about what is possible in terms of the writer and the writing process that he goes through. "… if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious … Such a writer will be interested in what we don't understand rather than in what we do. He will be interested in possibility rather than probability.”4 (Mystery and Manners, pg. 42) We watch the Star Wars movies and we love the Star Wars movies because there is something in us that says, "No, they are going to make it. There is an outside chance that good will win." The improbable happening is part of the very magic of Star Wars – and it is a major reason why audiences love Star Wars. There is much more to this cinematic series than a cool new world with aliens, spaceships, gadgets, a princess, and a darkly evil bad guy. We are suckers for the story of an underdog. Indeed, what could be more underdoggy than two feeble droids versus an evil Empire of unsurpassed power, overwhelming technology, and unchecked authority? Yet, the intrigue of Star Wars is also personal to who we are. Most of us are underdogs too, so we see ourselves and think, “If the Force can direct the path of the droids, couldn’t the Force also direct our paths to make good things happen?” This possibility mysteriously rings true to us, and here is why … the possible happening in spite of the probable is what God does when he uses the smallest, the least among us, to confound the greatest. Coincidences, as we perceive them, are often the way God brings about the possible. Was it a coincidence that Moses was found, taken, and reared by a member of the Egyptian court? Was it a coincidence that the walls of Jericho fell down? Was the life of Jesus simply a historical coincidence with the Old Testament’s prophesies? Was the tearing of the curtain between the holy of holies and the congregation in the temple, at the moment of Christ’s death, merely another such coincidence? Humanity's witness of these personal and corporate phenomena throughout history has created archetypal patterns that exist inside of us to the point where we see these mysterious and supernatural kinds of stories as organic to our own beings. In fact, they are so ingrained in us that we often mistake them as originating from inside ourselves instead of from God’s work in us. This perspective is the main difference that a believer in Christianity would have with Joseph Campbell, who was the leading authority on myth in our time, and one of the main influences on George Lucas. Campbell would say that God is a construction of the myths of the world. Through the image of the droids in the desert, we understand the crazy impossibility of the Rebel Alliance even making a dent in the Galactic Empire. Through the seeming coincidences of the droid’s adventures, like seeing the wind blow through the leaves on a tree, we understand the working of the Force.
 
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