Identifying Reasons 3.21.13

Identifying Reasons - Questions
Answer the following questions about your character. Use what you know about how he or she acts, speaks to other character, and thinks. You may re-read your text to help you with your responses.


How did people or situations influence the character I’m writing about?

The places he goes influences Bilbo because it is always really wet, or really dry, and uncomfortable and really col, or really hot, and he doesn't like it. He always wants to be back at his house where it is nice and cozy and always the ways he likes it.




Why does he or she change?

He changes when he realizes how far he has gone, and to turn back would mean it would take to long to go back home, then to go where he needed to go. He just has to pus forward to where he has to go, so that when it is time to go, it's easier to go back.







Explain what will continue to hold him or her back?

The thing that will continue to hold him back is the fact he will won't make it home for a while and h realizes hat. he realizes that no matter how much he wants to he isn't. He knows that he will keep going and going until the end. Then he also has to make it all the way back.

He always wants to go home, but he won't because he signed a contract. He can't leave because he signed a contract. He also cant leave because of the dangerous path that they left behind them. He has to just keep pushing. It's only in the last part of the last chapter does he ever make it back. And he always thinks "I shouldn't have left" or "I wish I was back at the comfort of my home"

But he doesn't do it, he was triumphant enough from the beginning to say until the end. But he was always being held back until then.










Using the questions you just answered about your character, push your thinking to explain why your claim is true. This is separate than the initial evidence you previously found. Each explanation becomes a reason, which could later serve as the topic sentence of each body paragraph.



Text Title: The Hobbit

Claim: Bilbo doesn't want to be where he is and he wants to be home. He is always very uncomfortable where he is and he would have rather not to have left, and would have still been home, but he still pushes on.

My claim is true because…..


Reason 1

In the book, the author always says "




Reason 2





Reason 3