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Nick Shepherd How To Read Like A Professor Chapter 2 I like to eat food. But there is also something more powerful behind the wanting to stuff your stomach. Eating with others is a fun enjoyable event. In the movie The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers, Frodo and Sam are following Gollum a lying crazy creature that is no longer human, to Mount Doom. Gollum is the only person that knows the way so they have to trust him. But on their way Frodo shares some bread with Gollum and it creates a friendship between the two. After that meal they seem to be closer. Frodo actually defends him from Sam at one point when Sam gets angry with Gollum. In the beginning, Frodo treats Gollum badly but after the meal it seems that they started to have a friendship. Chapter 3 …show more content…

He can't die because he is a vampire, and so has been around for many years. There is young female named Bella. All throughout the movie Edward and Bella fall in love and Edward explains all about the vampire life to her. Once being brought into the vampire life it seemed that the vampires wouldn’t leave her alone. She got unwanted attention from some vampires because she knew their secret. Since she knows these ‘bad’ vampires secrets she has to run away from home because she is afraid that they will come after him too. Chapter 5 Intertextuality the relationship between texts, especially literary ones. The two stories are Family Guy and American Dad. These two shows are very similar in the fact that they both are comedic. Both shows generally focus on one topic each episode. They both consist of having a problem 5 minutes into the show and for the rest they work on fixing it. They are also very random in the things they show. Often the jokes can be harsh and offensive but are not meant to be taken that way. They are both simple shows that meant mainly to just make you laugh. Chapter

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He said, “I don’t think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together” (244). Bilbo was kind to everyone he was loyal and generous, which all show his

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That is what makes him the evil antagonist. Bilbo on the other hand is always the one saving the day, stepping up and taking charge (when Gandalf leaves them). This leads to my conclusion of Bilbo being the heroic protagonist. These are two very different characters, I mean Bilbo was trying to save his own life while Gollum was playing with

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Gollum goes to his home (in the middle of the lake) to find his ring that makes him invisible so he can eat Bilbo. Bilbo finds this particular ring in the cave from Gollum's last

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As he tries to find his way out, he ran into an unusual creature named Gollum who challenges him to a riddle game, and if Gollum wins the game, he has the privilege to eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo wins then Gollum has to show Bilbo the way out. Gollum decides to try and kill Bilbo by using a magic ring that will make him invisible, but little did he know that Bilbo actually has the ring thanks to luck. In 2012, Peter Jackson remade this chapter, making many changes, into a scene in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Two major changes that were made in the movie was the way Gollum was portrayed (making him more relatable), and the way Bilbo escaped the from the goblin's cave. The book uses suspenseful tones and moods to keep the readers

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Quickly, he pulled out Sting and stabbed Boromir with a vile glare of hatred in his eyes. A cruel smile came across Frodo’s face and he moved his hand towards the ring on his neck. “Don’t try to take my precious,” Frodo growled and pulled Sting out of his companion’s chest. Suddenly, an awareness came to Frodo.

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