Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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With the recent movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there have been recent media outbreaks that have brought the movie to a new level of popularity. The problem with these outbreaks is that they focus on the one main topic, Rey. Rey is the protagonist in the story, she is a girl from the desert planet of Jakku. She has been seen as a new icon for the Disney princess. In one commercial I have seen on television, a little girl is sitting with her mother talking about Star Wars. The mother asks,¨ What is the message the princess (Rey) is trying to send to people¨? The little girl replies with something like,¨ That she is a strong female, who is trying to show that she can beat the Feminist issues¨. This shows how Rey is being slowly produced as

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