Rings

In J. R. R. Tolkien story, “The Hobbit”, Bilbo, the main character, is a man who displays courage and strength while on the adventures of being a false burgular. In the story, Bilbo decides to give Bard and the others the Arkenstone of Thrain to help in haggling with Thorin. The reason for Bilbo actions comes from Bard seeking aid from Thorin, because while killing the dragon Smaug, Laketown was destroyed. Thorin feels as though Laketown’s destruction isnt his problem, and in this refused to…

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the novel was written in the 1500s. Some boys are stranded on an island at the time of an world war II. On the island we see conflict between two main characters, Jack and Ralph, who represent leadership and savagery. This has an effect on the rest of the boys throughout the novel. Initially the beast symbolizes fear, then war, and finally the savagery of human nature. At the beginning of the novel, the beats represents fear. ( You couldn’t have a…

William Golding was a Christian, and this fact is evident throughout the course of his novel Lord of the Flies. The novel centers around the journey of a group of schoolboys that find themselves resulting to savagery after being stranded on a desert island following a plane crash. Golding touches on the Christian aspect by having the boys worship a devil instead of a God, and eventually the devil controls the boys so much that they are unable to foresee a hope for rescue or redemption. In…

In the book The Hobbit, Tolkien incorporates topics that relates to other pieces of literary work, specifically the topic/theme of how no matter someone's background anyone can achieve something that they set their mind to. A text that relates to this topic is the the poem Can I? Why Not? written by Liam Francis. In both texts the idea of achieving a goal is covered. In the novel The Hobbit, the main character Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit that lives in a hole, when one day Gandalf appears and…

In the Lord of The Flies, a group of kids are stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and are scared of the unknown. The term beast is defined throughout the story as several different things. The following writing will show what the kids really feared. The beast is first thought of as fear itself. Document A shows that, “They externalize these fears in the form of a beast.” Document B also supports this statement when saying, “He must have had a nightmare. He says in the morning it…

In the first 133 pages of Hollow City, the second novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, we are introduced to Jacob and his peculiar friends, who are fleeing the wights (hollowgast monsters who consume the eyes of peculiar children so they can become human). After a long and treacherous journey by oars, the group finally found land, where they continued to flee their pursuers. They made camp in the woods, and together read a story about a giant who turned into stone in the middle of a lake…

J.R.R. Tolkien himself said, in his essay On Fairy-Stories, that “the Consolation of the Happy Ending” is needed at the end of any complete fairy-story (2001, 68). Fantasy, the genre under which the fairy-story falls, is notable for the way in which the adventure or quest is brought to a close by the distribution of rewards (Marquis, 2017), and it is from this reward distribution that the happy ending commonly comes. However, Tolkien’s own story, The Hobbit, has a distinct and unusual way of…

Seeing a half-human, half-horse in real life would be a great experience. A centaur would be that creature and he would have the head and torso of a human but the body of a horse. In Harry Potter the centaur places the role of having to save Harry and keep the woods in order like from Voldemort trying to stay alive by drinking unicorn blood. A centaur is a savior and anyone would be lucky to have one around because they’re so magical and are good protectors. The unicorn that Voldemort was…

Bildungsroman, Hobbit Style Growing up is hard, especially the transition from acting like a naïve kid to a mature adult, and the realization of not relying on others for help but your own. Bildungsroman, it means a coming of age story. Usually a coming of age story involves a young person or kid growing up and learning about life. The Hobbit, written by J.R.R Tolkien about hobbit named Bilbo Baggins who goes on a quest with his friends. Bilbo is viewed a respectable hobbit because of his last…

Mallet finger is when the farthest joint in a individuals finger has dropped down. The finger can usually be put into a straightened position if it is maneuvered by another person or by another hand (Cooper & Elsevier, 2007). Mallet finger will affect a client’s eating pattern because it would be hard for them to grasp the spoon. With this condition, the client will not be able to fully wrap their finger around an eating utensil or another object in general. Individuals may encounter Mallet…