Chapter 6 Summary

On Tatooine, Watto orders Anakin to take the speeder out to the Dune Sea, and barter with the Jawas for some droids he has heard about. One of the tricks of being a successful slave lies in knowing about and being able to do things your master cannot do. One of the things that Anakin kept hidden from Watto was the protocol droid he was reconstructing. He could take it with him to listen in to the Jawas in their own tongue, which could possibly give him an advantage in trading. The other thing he hid was the Podracer he had partly completed and hidden, disguised as junk. His thought is to build a star fighter next and escape with his mother from Tatooine.

Anakin meets the Jawas, small robed figures, near their sand crawler's ramp, and proceeds to examine the merchandise. With...