Home
What does the word mean to Han Solo? Chewie reflects at the end of ANH.
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"Come on, fuzz-ball! Let's get on home!"
That's not the sort of thing you expect to hear from a human, even one who is prepared to risk his life and throw away his career, for a wookiee he doesn't know. It was a spur of the moment thing, of course. Most of his things are.
But where is home? The forgotten hovel in the back slums of Correllia where he was born? Kashyyk?
They are both long gone.
Just a meaningless, thoughtless word flung out on the spur of the moment, then?
No.
'Home' is this battered old ship which is both dwelling place and, in the way of all true homes, possessed of such character as to be part of the family as well.
Family: himself; one battered YT-1300 stock freighter; one wookiee.
Of course, in the manner of most humans, especially young ones, even those who have enough brain not to shoot just because their commanding officer told them to, he doesn't realise that's what he thinks.
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"You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"
But the kid's home is a burned-out tenant farm on a desert planet in the Outer Rim. No-one's going back there, any more than they're going back to the asteroid field that was once Alderaan.
Just another meaningless, thoughtless word flung out on the spur of the moment, then?
No.
'Home' hasn't changed. The family it encompasses has just expanded a bit, that's all.
Family: himself; one even more battered YT-1300 stock freighter; one wookiee; what he regards as the two most annoying droids in the galaxy; the kid who wishes he could stick around for ever; and the girl he wishes would stick around for ever.
Of course, he doesn't realise that's what he thinks, either.
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