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Our Lives in Exchange for a New Hope by TyrineCarver

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Very few works of fiction have ever really left an impression on me the way this movie did, especially in its depiction of hope.

That scene at the end, when Vader is slaughtering the rebels and they hand the data plans off as he comes, one by one dying to get it just that much closer to the door and screaming for someone, anyone, to take it and carry it onwards, to carry the galaxy’s one hope even over the corpses of their companions. That scene alone tells more about the nature of war than anything I have ever seen in fiction, and it shows that hope is not something to be idly dreamed of. Hope is something that must be sought out, that appears as the accumulated effort of tens, hundreds, thousands of sacrifices. Hope is gained when people face the coming doom and decide “This doom may take me, but it will not take another”. 

And not just hope. Each of their deaths has a personal triumph in it, too:

K-2 protected those he loved;

Chirrut’s faith was rewarded in making it unscathed to the master switch, his love rewarded by Baze’s arms;

Baze comforted Chirrut, got a bit of bloody revenge, and chose his last sight;

Bodhi proved to himself that he was brave enough and that he’d set at least something right;

Cassian laid his guilt to rest and made a real human connection;

and Jyn reconnected to the good in herself, in her parents, and in the Rebellion in general.