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  • Essay / Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) and Meggie Folcharts...

    “Home” is not just a place or a thing; it represents the place where you feel safest, where you feel accepted or part of a community, and where you generally feel like you belong. However, the home can also be what protects you from the outside world, leaving you unprepared to face situations and dangers beyond your knowledge. Often in children's stories, the character must leave his place of safety and go on a journey. Indeed, to grow as a person you must leave what is safe and familiar and venture into the unknown to truly test yourself and be able to return home with new knowledge and perspectives. This essay will focus on two characters who are going through this stage. transformation after leaving their “home”; Bilbo and his hobbit hole at Bags-End, and Meggie and her father, Mo, and his beloved books. Both are attached to their “home” and feel anxious and lonely without them. Bilbo and Meggie's journeys show how, when separated from their home, they persevere despite their insecurities and doubts and become stronger and more self-sufficient at the end of their lives. respected texts.1. Bilbo BagginsBilbo Baggins' hobbit hole is his happy home, where for fifty years he has been content to stay to avoid the dangers and discomfort of the outside world. Throughout the novel, it is the house he thinks about most often, and ultimately the one he must leave to continue his adventures and grow. His attachment to his home may be due to three factors: physical comfort, its protection from the outside world and its representation of social status. The hobbit hole, the narrator tells us, means comfort (11), and he explains to us the comfortable furniture, the pantries full of food, and the cupboards full of c...... middle of paper .... ..power also comes with more active bravery in Meggie; for example, she may now defiantly refuse to give Capricorn and his classmates what they want: "'I'm not going to read aloud tonight,' she said. “You shot my father last night. Basta told me. I won't read a word […] Why would she be afraid? They needed her. She was the only one who could read to them their miserable Shadow in the book; no one else could do it…” (440-441). With this power, she can play an active role in the story; instead of looking at evil with fearful eyes, she can use her own power to save everyone. She does so by destroying Capricorn and his men once and for all, with Mo at her side (quote). So instead of her father doing things for Meggie in order to protect her, she and her father work together as equals in terms of power and maturity to banish the evil that has inflicted their lives. .