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The Hobbit Persuasive Essay

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Facing evil orcs, savage wolves, and giant spiders, with unknown dangers Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit faces an unparalleled experience that may or may not endanger his life. The book The Hobbit written by J.R.R Tolkien and directed by Peter Jackson is about a Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who is unpretentious, settled, and has great manners whom wanted to be left at his quiet comfortable home. Is then greeted one day by a wizard named, Gandalf, who introduces Bilbo to thirteen other dwarves for a chance to go on a once and a lifetime adventure. Two of the trigger factors that show the movie is not effective are;Thorin becomes the true hero at the end of the day because it did not show how Bilbo started to grow as a character. Along with the dwarves and Bilbo sleeping inside the Lonely Mountains, which created suspense at the end of the chapter.
To begin with, Bilbo Baggins, the overall main hero of the book towards the end, in chapter XII tilted, Inside Information shows Bilbo growing as a character. While Thorin disappears, but still appears as a lead role from afar, but …show more content…

On the other hand the book did include some intense chapters that were very suspenseful . For example, “...when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He is only pretending to sleep!” (Tolkien 222). From this quote it leads you to think Smaug is going to do something which creates suspense showing the book does include action with intense chapters. Even though the movie has visuals that comprehend to more people the book can express emotions and feelings. Movie can not truly explain emotions and feelings through lighting and music. Whereas a book can explain those exact emotions and feelings from those very moment meaning, mood and tone but also things running through their characters

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