Book review: The Hobbit Point of view is who tells the story: the main character
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Question
Book review: The Hobbit
Point of view is who tells the story: the main character, some other characters, or an impersonal and objective teller? Is there any information given about the narrator’s gender, class, age or race?
The setting is when and where the story happens. Here you might want to answer questions like: Where does the story take place? Does it take place in another country or an imaginary place? Does it take place a long time ago or now? How is the story told? Is it told chronologically, from the end to the beginning, or are there flashes backward (and forward)?
Characters are who the story is about. The main character is called the protagonist. Tell who the protagonist is and answer questions like: Who are the other important characters? Do they help or hinder the protagonist? How are they described? Do they change during the course of the novel?
Theme is why the story is written. It is about the main idea of the book. Some examples of theme can be friendship, family, jealousy, etc. Tell what the writer will convey to the reader.
Plot is what happens in the story. Tell what the story is mostly about and answer questions like: What is the main event or conflict? What is the cause of the conflict and how is it solved? Try not to simply retell the story or give away the ending.
Explanation / Answer
Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit whom we find living in his comfortable, not to say luxurious, hobbit hole, for it was not a dirty, wet hole, nor yet a bare, sandy one, but inside its round, green door, like a porthole, there were bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries, kitchens and dining rooms, all in the best of hobbit taste. All Bilbo asked was to be left in peace in this residence, known as "Bag-End," for hobbits are naturally homekeeping folk, and Bilbo had no desire for adventure. That is to say, the Baggins' side of him had not, but Bilbo's mother had been a Took, and in the past the Tooks had intermarried with a fairy family. It was the Took strain that made the little hobbit, almost against his will, respond to the summons of Gandalf the Wizard to join the dwarves in their attempt to recover the treasure which Smaug the dragon had stolen from their forefathers. Bilbo has an engaging, as well as an entirely convincing, personality; frankly scornful of the heroic , he nevertheless plays his part in emergencies with a dogged courage and resourcefulness that make him in the end the real leader of the expedition
The Hobbit is a fantastic novel. Many people see this universe as something which has been encapsulated by the films, however they represent merely a fraction of the imaginative delight which can be gained from reading it. Also, The Hobbit is surprisingly light making it a read which can be so easily accessed and enjoyed. It is wonderfully imaginative, has a delightful story arc and begins to explore a beautiful fraction of the epic landscape that Tolkien went on to craft later in his life.