In chapter 13, Smaug assumes that they are somehow involved with Lake Town and he goes there. When he does, Bilbo checks to see if he's gone and the dwarfs approach the treasure with pleasure. When all the dwarfs get what they want, they head towards the main gate at the river. Later they become hungry and find a good place to stop and eat at. In chapter 14, Smaug arrives at Laketown and everybody prepares to fire arrows at them but fail to defend the town when Smaug lights everyones homes on fire and the arrows take no effect. In the end, there is still one man who has not fired his arrow named Bard who kills the dragon but destroys the town when the dragon falls from the sky and crushes it. Suddenly, the townsmen realize that they can use much of the gold on the mountain to rebuild their town and they join up with the elves and walk up to the mountain.
Chapter 13 bored me because nothing really happened besides I don't like happy endings because of there unoriginality especially one that involves some secret treasure that the protagonists find. Although dragons are also unoriginal, I find dragons more amusing, funner to slay, and more suspenseful then a treasure. Basically an idea that is unoriginal is copied from someone else and there's no point to reading the same thing or idea twice so I kind of find it pointless.
I liked chapter 14 because I like war rather than a bunch of dwarfs going on an adventure like the book has been like so far. I also like this chapter because it changes the viewpoint of the book to that of the people of Laketown rather than that of the dwarfs. I like this because I like variety because without variety, stuff can get really old after a while, kind of like if you had to work at Dunkin' Donuts everyday of your life how boring and annoying that would be after like the first month or two.
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