Excerpt From The Hobbit

In the excerpt from the Hobbit, the author, J.R.R., uses descriptive language to describe the setting and mood. This quote helps us form our claim by showing mood and setting, “He nibbled a bit of sorrel, and he drank from a small mountain stream that crossed the path, and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank, but it was not much good.” This supports our claim by presenting that he was stuck in the wilderness without the resources he would normally use. The character scrounge up some last resort items , but it was not tasteful compared to the diet he is used to. This quote showed his mood about what was going on was not exceptional enough for his standards. Another example is, “The bushes, and the long grasses between
the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage and the marjoram, and the yellow rockroses all vanished, and they found themselves at the top of a wide steep slope of fallen stones, the remains of a landslide.“ This shows that the author, J.R.R. Tolkien, uses descriptive language to describe the setting because the author goes in detail to describe everything that the character saw as he walked through the forest. The last example is, ¨The sun had long gone behind the mountains. Already the shadows were deepening about them, though far away through the trees and over the black tops of those growing lower down they could still see the evening lights on the plains beyond.¨This connects with the claim because the mood shifted to we won the battle to itś turing night and we are all injured and have nowhere to go. In conclusion, the author, J.R.R. Tolkien, uses descriptive language to describe the setting and mood in the excerpt.