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. review the rubric to ensure you are submitting your best work.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.