I am finding this collection of stories to be an absolute delight.
The author of this one gives a charming, gentle voice to the Jawas.
Jot is a bit of a loner and outsider of the community that resides in the sandcrawler that ultimately discovers R2-D2. He is an outcast, because of his size. He is small, a runt, by the standards of Jawas. He spends much of his time alone in his little corner of the roving junkyard.
One of his responsibilities is to perform a memory wipe on the droids before they are sold. But before he does so he watches these memories, thinking of them as stories, and through these viewings he realizes there is a larger galaxy out there.
McElroy wrote a sad, touching and ultimately hopeful story in showing us one of the lives on board this giant scavenger of the desert. The author has given us a view from the inside of Jawa culture that has not been explored in the movies.
I love thinking that Jot is out there in that galaxy far, far away and experiencing stories of his own making.
Lovely. Just lovely.
Griffin McElroy's website - https://www.griffinmcelroy.com/
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