The scenery in these chapters were very vivid and made me feel as though I was in the story. For example, The curving bay with the waves creaming on the sand, the dunes country around seaside and right at the bottom of the hill, the
There are many different kinds and types of creatures that appear in Bilbo's adventure. One of the creatures is a Dragon. A quote showing the dragons placement on the social hierarchy, is “Your information is antiquated. , he snapped ‘I am armoured above and below with iron scales and hard gems. No blade can pierce me.
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein is a fantisy novel that explores the message of steriotypes. Through characters such as dragons,elves,goblins and a hobbit Tolkein uses their similarities and differences to convay that people cant be defined by steriotypes. The novel uses the mystical journey of 13 dwarfs and a hobbit to show how people can change and defy steriotypes through their own experiences and adventures. The elemnt of setting created defined good and evil settlements, this allowed characters to have a journey where they could learn and develop. Three examples of deifing steriotypes are Biblo a young Hobbit who discovers his courage and defies his respectable timid nature, Thorin who was thought to be "king under the mountain" was united by
“Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow”. Those were Aslan’s words on chapter 16 of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, as he was bringing a giant back to life after it had been turned into stone by the Witch. Susan was worried that the giant would cause more harm than good, but Aslan knew what was the right thing to be done. While they were rescuing the statues at the castle, Peter and Edmund were fighting the Witch and her army. In the book, it states that it appeared to have many more people fighting for the Witch, than against her.
The Hobbit Chapter 20 [The Mysterious Footprint] It had past one month and Bilbo got his things back from the auction that Bilbo was presumed dead and was cozy in his comfortable bed. His day were normal like it used to be, but one thing is he is lonely all by himself. Before the adventure, Bilbo was peaceful and was organized, but as soon as he came back from the adventure he was like the dwarves. He is not the Bilbo that used to be all organized.
Humans, according to the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, are selfish by nature. In his landmark work, Leviathan, he explains the importance of a strong government in society. According to Hobbes, without a strong system of government people would revert into a primitive state; war would run rampant, the natural law would not be abided, and those once tamed by society would become evil. William Golding based his novel, Lord of The Flies, on a similar idea. In this novel, many characters digress from civility into savagery.
Bilbo Baggins the Burglar Thesis: In the book The Hobbit, the character Bilbo Baggins is a middle class hobbit who must challenged his introverted nature to help the dwarves reclaim their land. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit, who lives in his hobbit hole. Hobbits are generally short and fat introverted people who don’t leave their house much. Bilbo Baggins was living like that, until one day, thirteen dwarves and his old wizard friend(Gandalf) enter his house and start eating and talking like it was their house.
Brody Reitmair Period 2 Ms Sheehan 10/23/15 Good vs. Evil In the hobbit trilogy there are two sides that fight over one conflict. The good side is the hobbit crew.
“Don’t be afraid to change. You may lose something good but you may gain something better.” In the Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien presents an unlikely hero, a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Another important character in the novel is Gandalf, a wizard and an old family friend, forces Bilbo to come out of his comfort zone onto a journey to recover the dwarves name and gold from the evil dragon, Smaug. Bilbo fulfills the archetypal hero’s journey by starting of an in ordinary world ,facing Ordeal, Death, and Rebirth, and The Road Back while illustrating the theme of innovation.
In The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale” demonstrates the very same idea system from The Book of the Duchess. When Arcite and Palamon discover Emily while they are in prison, Arcite describes how “Fortune, ytunred thee the dys”(The Knight’s Tale, 1238) meaning that here Fortune represents good luck. Fortune who, according to Arcite, “hast the sighte of hire, and I th’abscence” (The Knight’s Tale, 1239)
I am working towards being a real estate agent. I would enjoy this career path, because I like working with houses and interacting with people. My parents both own their own businesses so I always have interacted with the public throughout my whole life. My dad is my inspiration because he owns and rents houses. So, I not only want to sell houses
In the past I have struggled with my biracial identity. As a child I was confused about which community I belonged in because I am a mix of Navajo and Caucasian. As I got older, I began to question myself and who I was. I felt like I did not belong to either the Native or Caucasian community because in both groups I felt like someone else. I felt as if I had to live two lives that were completely separated.
We had cliques based over our interests and hobbies. I never thought of them differently. We were all just friends hanging out with each other.
The quote that Christopher includes from The Hound of the Baskervilles definitely relates to his outlook of the world. After doing some research behind the meaning of the quote I discovered that the quote was explaining the fact that Holmes has the capability to observe a multitude of details at once, which is also something that Christopher excels at. This is a fact that I feel even Christopher is aware of since he states, “But most people are lazy. They never look at everything… But if I am standing in a field in the countryside I notice everything.”
Fitting In: High School Edition Blake Lively once said, “In High School, there are so many cliques. You’re never safe” (Lively). Whether teenagers like it or not, there are a lot of different types of cliques in high school. There are the populars, (a.k.a. the jocks and cheerleaders) the nerds, the party animals (they are usually the troublemakers), the misfits, and then finally, the floaters.
