Ineed on writing an essay for the hobbit.. me i dont know where to start ; -;
write a short essay analyzing how the events in the story reveal a larger theme. remember to use text from the novel as support. when you have completed your assignment, submit to your teacher.
in chapter 5, bilbo has the chance to kill gollum but chooses not to. then, in one of tolkien's later books, it happens that—though great kings, brave warriors, and wise wizards are against a terrible evil—gollum is the only character that can save middle-earth from destruction.
compare the examples of the dwarves' and the goblins' prejudices with the effects of bilbo's choice. what theme do you notice? support your theme with examples from the text.

Bilbo's choice of not killing Gollum reflects his rejection to prejudices. "He knew, of course, that the riddle-game was sacred and of immense antiquity, and even wicked creatures were afraid to cheat when they played at it. But he felt he could not trust this slimy thing to keep any promise at a pinch. Any excuse would do for him to slide out of it." Even though Bilbo knows Gollum cannot be trusted, he chose to spare him "He must fight. He must stab the foul thing...Gollum had no sword...was miserable, alone, lost. A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart." That is when Bilbo rejects his prejudices and urge to kill Gollum. Dwarves are a good and proud race while golbins are evil and wicked beings. But they both have prejudices of other beings. That has led to their mistrust of Gollum.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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