This year we read The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, and we also read the short story titled “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. The Hobbit is a fictional book about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who, despite it being highly disrespectful for his kind, goes on an adventure. He accompanies a group of dwarves and a wizard and they along with the dangers they face help to change his whole view on what lives beyond his comfy hobbit hole. While reading this novel I’ve learned to analyze literary devices and make predictions
The Hobbit Compare and Contrast Essay “ the Hobbit trilogy has been incredibly successful on a domestic and worldwide stage. The three-film trilogy cost around $765m to produce and made $2.916b worldwide thus far. “ The Hobbit is a book written by J.R.R Tolkien and was directed by Peter Jackson and made into a three part movie series. It tells a story of a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who is invited to go on a journey with a group of dwarves and his mutual Gandalf. The dwarves and Bilbo travel back
main character in the book is the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins. He is asked through the 13 dwarfs and Gandalf to be the burglar of the company. He has to steal the Arkenstone from the dragon Smaug, who claims the mountain named Erebor, and to help the dwarfs by their quest to reclaim the mountain. Bilbo changes throughout the book, so changes his understanding of the world around him, his sense of adventure, and his desire to live a comfortable life in his warm Hobbit hole. At the beginning of the book
When novels are transformed into films, directors tend to take creative liberties with how chains of events occur. The Hobbit is no exception to this occurring theme with it’s series off movie transformations. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was recreated as a full-fledged set of films by director Peter Jackson. The events leading up to the chapter I’m analyzing began with Gandalf, Bilbo, and all 13 dwarves being left by the Lord of the Eagles at the bottom of a hill. Gandalf explains that over the
literature greatly. Affected mainly by his life experiences in war, childhood, Catholic religion, and certain types of mythology, his works became extremely popular and outspread throughout the world. Famous books including The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and all works associated in that set are his most well- known pieces. Tolkien took his many life encounters and used them to produce extraordinarily creative writings which made him one of the most remarkable authors, still famous today. Tolkien was
Critique #1: Unlucky 13 The thrilling mystery novel Unlucky 13 by James Patterson takes the reader on a very riveting experience. This takes place in the city of San Francisco with a detective who has everything in place. This is all until everything comes crashing down when the FBI sends her a photo of the murder from her next case. This photo just happens to be of a killer from this detective’s past. Lindsey, the main character, is tasked with finding this very manipulative, psychopathic murder
outer space. Often time fantasy as a genre allows the writer to imagine a place or time in the future, with a different landscape to what we would have ever have seen in present day reality. The beauty of fantasy is that, in most cases, the plot or story the author is trying to tell, is often inconceivable and would not be able to exist