Bilbo Baggins seems to follow The Archetypal Journey by Joseph Campbell. In The Hobbit, journey is followed step by step. Some people would say that they don’t believe that the main character Bilbo baggins followed the Journey, that he goes through a different path, but that is not the case with that statement and by an example that will demonstrate why, I disagree. Bilbo Baggins does follow the journey, when Gandalf arrives and tell Bilbo of an adventure that he is planning, and ask Bilbo to go with him and help thirteen Dwarves regain treasure that was stolen from them by a dragon named Smaug. Right after the “Call to Adventure,” Bilbo refuse to join him in any kind of adventure that might shame his reputation in his homeland. From that point it seems that Bilbo is not going to follow the journey, but right after Bilbo is coerced into joining the adventure. …show more content…
in this quote we are able to conclude that Bilbo wasn’t an adventure type of guy, but that he could go in an adventure. Bilbo get to the crisis in a slower way, so the speed of the story matches with his personality, in the story Bilbo, goes through a lot of trial before reaching the crisis. In the trials Bilbo had to face a lot of things as been attacked and almost killed by trolls as one of the first trial in his journey. He is intimidated on multiple occasions by goblins. who would be totally happy in killing him. Another trial is when he scape from a giant spider, while trying to save his friends and use the ring to give him