The Hobbit Greed Theme

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In this quarter, I’ve been reading J.R.R Tolkien’s book. The book named The Hobbit. Throughout this book, there are three main themes that the author has been talking about in his story. They are luck, magic, and greed. In my opinion, Tolkien thinks of Luck as an unexpected thing that happens, it’s either good or will turn out to be good to you. Magic is things that a normal person can not do or have. It’s create by supernatural or mysterious. Greed is a part of personality of a character. I think that greed takes a part in every creature’s personality, not only bad people has it, but everybody. Those themes help the story floats on smoothly, entertaining and interesting by putting the main characters in a punch of problems and let luck,

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