Luke Skywalker: 12 Steps to Individuation
Luke Skywalker in A New Hope . Image from the website Geek Tyrant . From Adolescence to Maturity: How Luke Skywalker Symbolizes Emotional Growth. I can remember it like yesterday. Sitting in the historic Penn Theatre, a single-screen theater house in my hometown of Titusville, PA. The Penn, like many of the theatre houses that rose up in the 1930s, had once been a luxurious structure. But by June of 1977, less than a decade before it would be torn down for good, it had fallen to disrepair. The Penn Theatre in Titusville, PA. Image from the website NWPA Stories . Beneath the smell of popcorn and soda syrup that filled the air was a vague yet pervasive smell of dust and mildew. Strips of its once decadent red and gold wallpaper curled and lifted away from the wall or were gone completely, leaving exposed plaster covered by wallpaper paste that had long ago dried up to a brittle brown crust. The floor, always sticky from forty years of spilled drinks and trampled candy, made
