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    Do you have what it takes to be a truly exemplary hero? If your answer is no, than you are in the same boat as our hero, Bilbo Baggins. But as the age-old adage says, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” In the book The Hobbit by famed British author J.R.R. Tolkien, our protagonist, Bilbo Baggins displays characteristics very similar to those of Beowulf and Sir Gawain. Some say that Bilbo was a coward while others believe he was a mighty hero. Bilbo Baggins matches the example laid down by…

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    In the beginning of the book, Bilbo is going along with his normal, boring, life, carrying on as usual(which is also another part of the monomyth which is status quo, or normal life) until Gandalf comes seeking a partner for an adventure. This is the call to adventure. Some event that signifies the start of the journey or reason for the hero to leave his normal life. Bilbo refuses because he is a normal and boring person. But eventually Gandalf forces it upon him by directing all the Dwarves…

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    Evil In Lord Of The Flies

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    Profound evil is an inescapable consequence of human nature, the civilization is morally responsible for it, as something we voluntarily cause upon ourselves and deliberately embody. This notion is highlighted within William Golding’s 1954 fictional “Lord of the Flies,” which pursues to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature through the intricate ideology of his novel. Golding utilizes elements of humanity with a blatant manner to justify that evil is an inescapable…

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    In The Hobbit, by J.RR.Tolkien, the the book wase made for enjoyment for readers.In the book The Hobbit Tolkien made many diverse charicters that puses diferant character traints. The characters puses both positive and negative traits that aspects to their characters trait, the most important is intelligence. First, Tolkien's characters have many positive character traits. In the book bilbo accepted to go inspect the trolls. Even when he new it was dangerous he went to inspect the strange lite…

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    Flying with Lords: Three Things that went Wrong on the Island Imagine being stranded on an island as a young child surrounded by only other children for comfort. Day after day the struggle would remain, deteriorating one’s values and beliefs. Fearing not only the elements, but also the child standing by one’s side or bedding near one during the long nights. Children do not always make the best decisions. In the “Lord of Flies”, by William Golding, a group of children find themselves stranded…

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    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Hero Society often tends to think that heroes were born to be mighty, strong, and reliable, that no ordinary man can achieve heroism or greatness. However, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien follows a small, little hobbit’s heroic journey, illustrates the reader the value of this Hobbit’s heroism, and illustrates what it takes to develop into a hero; through the hobbit’s accomplishments, Tolkien not only shows society that anyone could acquire these heroic, but also uses…

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    Lord of the Flies is a book all about sin and how a group of young and innocent boys descended into savagery. While I was reading this book I kept thinking about how the Seven Deadly Sins helped the boys into madness. In this blog, I will outline how each of the Seven Deadly sins It all started out so innocent when the boys went and elected a leader like in a democracy. The problem with this is that it sparks a rivalry and Jack gets filled with envy “and the freckles on Jack’s face…

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    “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever” and right then, the lever released a rock which killed Piggy (Golding 180), a crucial character in William Golding’s Novel Lord of the Flies. Golding’s novel features a group of boys from about six to fifteen years old who are marooned on an island where their plane crashed. The boys all agree that they need to survive, but their ways of doing so divides them. One of the boys, Ralph, proposes that they as a group…

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    “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, is probably one of the most interesting pieces I have read. There’s a bunch of plot twists to the book and I think that is the most interesting part about it. The kids all seem nice and fun, like kids, in the beginning but throughout the story that changes, they begin to “mature.” Violence starts, people begin to take sides, a lot more fear is coming along. The children decide there should be a leader, someone to keep them safe, protected them and make the…

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    Lord of the Flies Literary Analysis Essay How would you survive an island full of rambunctious boys? Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is an allegorical novella. The story takes place during World War II, when a group of schoolboys are being evacuated from England. They crash on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and have to fight for their lives in a new and strange environment. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, find a conch and use it to gather the other children…

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