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is difficult to control. Only Yoda seems to notice something is wrong with the boy,
and warns that pride and anger may come to dominate in him.
Interestingly in a story about fathers and sons, the boy Anakin has no father
in the conventional sense. Like many mythic heroes of the past, his birth was almost
miraculous, an "immaculate conception," for his mother was impregnated not by a
human father but by mysterious microscopic life forms called "midi-chloridians"
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that the Jedi believe are channels for the Force. An important element in the moral
compass of the Star Wars series is how humans will make the transition from purely
organic creatures into beings of the future enhanced or modified by technology and
machines