The Hero In A Small Package
In John Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, readers follow the unforeseen journey of the hobbit known as Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is chosen to join a group of dwarves going to reclaim their homeland from a dragon. The group encounters many trials throughout the adventure and has near death encounters many times. However, Bilbo is a courageous hobbit and he is able to rescue the group from the jaws of death on multiple occasions. Tolkien writes Bilbo to be the hero of the story, but he is not the cliché hero of most children’s books. Tolkien gave Bilbo a different type of character development than readers normally see in the “hero” of the story. Bilbo teaches readers that good people cannot be corrupted by bad situations and that heroes are not always warriors or wizards, but that even a hobbit can be a hero. Readers learn that Bilbo is not a normal hobbit because he is part Took (Tolkien 5). The Took side of Bilbo is the adventurous side that drives him to take his journey in the first place...