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…building up towards Tom's desire to leave his family behind and pursue a life of adventure. Tom envies his father for the courage and ability to leave. His father becomes an ideal to Tom. As many kids do, Tom looks up to his father and wants to be like him…

…The Hobbit By J.R.R. Tolkien, published by Ballantine Books in 1937, 304 pages. The Hobbit is a book that shows that even the most unlikely person, or hobbit can turn out to be a real hero. In the book, Bilbo gets caught up in an adventure…

…with reading novels of chivalry, and decided to become a knight-errant. He named his horse Rozinante, made the country wench Aldonza Loreno his mistress, though to him, she was Dulcinea del Toboso, and set off on his first adventure to defend the helpless…

…falling into the hands of another, he imagines himself a warrior like the Indians-- free and wild—riding on horseback, and headed toward adventure and the fulfillment of his dreams. Although it may seem at times to be merely the background in this novel…

…the players feel as though they’ve achieved something after the adventure is over. An arcing, or continuing, storyline is the best way to go, so player’s don’t lose interest in their characters. After all, the characters interacting through the story is the story…

…Throughout the “Odyssey”, Homer’s main character, Odysseus undergoes various changes with himself and his surroundings. He partakes in many adventures that usually have a symbolic meaning to them. In book IX, X, and XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus…

…“Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce” (Dictionary.com). In the classic adventure King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard, death…

…that happen to Candide throughout the book. In his satire Voltaire seems to emphasize through Candide’s adventures that in the world there is no such thing as reason and order to govern it. Candide showed how people become hypocritical and turn their backs…

…The time when Queen Victoria I was in rule, known as the Victorian Era, played host to an abundance of children's literature, appearing in such forms as the fairy tale, nonsense stories, and tales of adventure. This influx of writing aimed toward…

…, Michael, and Wendy awake, Peter Pan flies them through the twinkling stars to Neverland, the land of eternal youth and fierce adventure. Wendy becomes mother to Peter's troop of lost boys who live underground to avoid the dreaded Captain Hook and his pirate…