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The Effort of Bilbo Baggins
CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

In this chapter, the researcher presents background of the study, identification of the problems, limitation of the problems, formulation of the problems, objective of the study, significance of the study and presentation.

A. Background of the Study

Doing struggle and effort in life is important to achieve something just like dream, future-plan, and achieving aims and goals. Life needs effort. As humans people faced many problems in their life and they cannot go away from this real situation. They can finish or solve their problems of life by themselves or it solved by their friends, family or society.

Effort can be applied in the life of people to survive, to get something, to create the dream, to keep the right or to save the life itself. People can achieve their purposes of life by using an effort. Strong exertion will bring us nearer to our hope. Although, it needs more power and sacrifice. It because easy of life will be come after difficulty and life without an effort is nothing.

A novel usually talks about the effort and struggle of the main character in achieving the goal and solving problem that becomes the obstacle. The main character has struggle because his problem is difficult to solve. In making struggle of peaceful life, the main character does not always fine success. Instead, the main character often finds difficulties, danger or even death.

In relation to the effort of doing something to achieve the success, the researcher is interested to analyze a novel entitled The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien because of several reasons as follows: first, the novel talks about The Hobbit (Bilbo Baggins) as the main character who is a young hobbit that disturbed from his peaceful life by the arrival of the mysterious wizard Gandalf and a troop of thirteen dwarves. They have come to pluck the easy-going Bilbo Baggins from his sleepy life in the Shire to take him to a dragon's den, Smaug the

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