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    The Lord of the Rings tells a story of change. The whole of middle earth is being torn apart and fundamentally altered. At the center of this tale is Frodo Baggins, the bearer of the Ring, who is subject to a very unique influence, the Ring of Power. Gandalf explains to Frodo something of the Ring’s nature. “It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would posses him.” (Tolkien,46).…

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    The leprechaun’s straggly red beard dragged along the floor of the county courthouse as he looked down at his handcuffs wondering how he’d gotten himself in this position. “All I’d wanted was me pot of gold,” he said to the sheriff forlornly. “Me rainbow led me there. I swear!” “Well, that wasn’t your pot of gold,” the sheriff replied. “We still don’t know how you got in there, but you were in the Fort Knox safe. That’s more like a million of your pots of gold.” The leprechaun tried to think of…

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    The Hobbit Theme Essay

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    Adventure, Morals, and Battles in Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The Hobbit is a fantasy novel created by J.R.R. Tolkien. In The Hobbit, Tolkien explains about an Adventure, Morales, and Battles that take place in the book. J.R.R. Tolkien created the works of “The Hobbit” in a completely new world. He created characters that lived in middle –earth that made “The Hobbit” an adventure to read. Bilbo Baggins is a character in the book, who is a Hobbit that lives in a Hobbit hole named Bag End, which is in…

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    Lord of the Flies is a novel. There is a plane crash on a deserted island. The only survivors were the children aboard the plane. There is a group of boy who were flying in a plane. The plane crashes in the middle of a remote island. They were forced to try and survive on their own. Imagine being a little boy trying to survive on an island with a group of people you don’t even know. If it were me I would be scared and feel alone, and I’m pretty sure that is whole the boys felt. So this forces…

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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a fictional novel about how people who are good turn evil due to the environment around. During a time of war, a plane is attacked and lands on a deserted island. There are no adults only children, and they try to survive by themselves until rescue. The main theme of Lord of the Flies is the idea of human evil which is portrayed through major connections to World War Two of physical violence, manipulation, and oppression. The theme of Connections to…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding creates a different personality for each child. The three main characters Golding describes each have their own different personality. He also allows his characters to be analyzed and be predicted. The three characters I believe he describes deeply are Jack, Piggy, and Ralph. One character Golding uses in his story is Jack. This young intellectual is a character who was once afraid to kill a pig. Now, he wants to prove all the kids he is the strongest of…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the story begins after a plane crash changes the lives of young, British boys. With little knowledge and sparse supplies, they work to survive on the vacant island that they crash upon. At the start, they even attempt to establish a societal structure of their own in hopes that they will be saved. One character, however, makes it quite difficult to maintain order and stability within the group. Jack Merridew, upon recognition that he does not…

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    The Hobbit Smaug is a fire breathing dragon that disliked dwarves and would kill the dwarves if they tried to steal the Arkenstone. The dwarves are people that have been trying to steal the Arkenstone for a while. Bilbo is a person that was sent on a journey and the dwarves were sent on the journey with Bilbo. I am going to compare and contrast the book and the movie and I am going to talk about their character personalities and the plot changes. Their personalities were shown in the movie…

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    Catch Mewtwo: Is That Really Possible? You’re not considered a Pokemon Master if you don’t have some of the legendary monsters in your Pokedex, including Articuno, Mewtwo, Mew, Moltres and Zapdos. Well, you better catch ‘em all. Unfortunately, these legendary Pokemon are actually hard to catch, because they haven’t been found yet. That is, no one knows yet as to where they’re likely to appear and end everyone’s sufferings. There have been sightings of Articuno in Ohio, and some lucky trainer…

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    Another important factor is that the boys have killed a female pig, thus, the boys are ultimately killing a source of piglets, a source of innocence. The boys are slowly eradicating all that is good and pure that remains on the island. This dialogue was spoken by the pig’s head, the lord of the flies. The pig’s head was the embodiment of evil, a devil dwelling within the island. He talks to Simon, the boy who represents all that is pure and innocent on the island. The Lord of the Flies yells at…

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