How To Read Literature Like A Professor Character Analysis

Does everything in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” match “The Hobbit”? Breaking down “The Hobbit” will help to further conclude what concepts it does and does not follow in Thomas C. Foster's book “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”
The first step in telling if “The Hobbit” t is a quest, is finding out if “The Hobbit” had a quester. A quester as explained by Thomas C. Foster is just a person who goes on a quest, whether he knows it or not.The quester in the hobbit is Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo was a well-respected hobbit who did not mind company as long as you were invited. He lived in a hole on the hill and was not known to do anything unexpected. Until the dwarfs show up.
The next two steps in telling if “The Hobbit” is a quest, was told if they had a place to go and stated reason to go there. The 13 dwarves visit Bilbo unexpectedly to see if he will travel with them to the Misty Mountain. The misty mountains are the original home of the dwarfs, they lived there until a dragon by the name of Smaug stole all their treasure. The stated reason to go on the quest is to retrieve the stolen treasure from Smaug, with the help of Thor's map, that not even the dragon knows about. However, they will face many challenges along the way.
The next step to telling if “The Hobbit” follows Thomas C. Foster’s five steps
to a quest, is the trials & challenges that they face getting there. Bilbo and the dwarves face many challenges along the way, including trolls, goblins, Gollum, hunger, giant spiders, escaping wood elves, finding a secret door, and opening the secret door. There are also many battles, with the goblins against Bilbo & the dwarves. One of the biggest challenges they face is when the lake men and elves chase after them to get the gold after Smaug is killed.
The last step to telling if “The Hobbit” was a quest was seeing if there was a real reason for the quest. According to Thomas Foster “The real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason.” He also says that more often than not the Quester fails at the original task at hand. This does not take place in the hobbit, in fact, Bilbo and the dwarves succeed at killing Smaug and regaining their treasure. The dwarfs get their share of gold, and so do the lake men and elves. Bilbo heads home with some gold too, but that wasn't the real reason for the quest. You see, the real reason for the quest was for Bilbo to come out of his shell. It is clearly stated at the beginning that Bilbo is not known to do anything unexpected, and is quite boring. By the end of the book, the reader can tell that Bilbo has become quite the adventurous hobbit.
By breaking down “The Hobbit” it is very clear that “The Hobbit” is a quest.
Thomas Foster states that a quest is always very educational for the quester, and they don't know enough about the only subject that really matters: themselves. As stated above “the real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.” The stated goal begins to fade away, as you go deeper and deeper into the novel “The Hobbit”, you begin to hear less and less about the original reason to go on the quest. This particular quest gave the main character Bilbo Baggins a life that he never had before, a life where he was more outgoing and did not stay closed off all the
time.