Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days before Christmas. Consumers wait in line hours, even days, before the doors open. Sales start early in the morning; Typically around 5 a.m., shoppers save hundreds of dollars on all the latest gadgets and accessories. But these crazy offers have a catch. Several customers and employees end up bruised, injured, and even killed during the event. Greed for the lowest price during the holiday season has led to countless struggles for a discounted item. Greed is a main theme expressed throughout The Hobbit written by JRR Tolkien. In The Hobbit, the plot of the story is filled with greed; often this leads to disaster. Thorin and company's greed for not sharing the gold backfires on the group. The group of dwarves finds themselves stuck in prison. As the group walks through the forest, the Elven King abducts them. The king has only one goal: (Colon) to discover the motivations behind the dwarves in his domain. Thorin asks his group to keep their trip a secret. The group stays in prison too long due to Thorin's greed. To avoid this situation, (Introducer) Thorin could tell the king the true reason for his entry into the forest. Thorin believes that if the king discovers the gold, the elves will try to take a share of the treasure. Foolishly, Thorin decides that the treasure is worth more than his freedom, "When they took their spell from him (Thorin) and he came to his senses... he was determined that no word of gold or jewels would come to him be torn away” (169). The greed to recover all the gold leads the group to get stuck in prison. The king only wants information on why the groups of dwarves ended up wandering through his front...... middle of paper......ess. Greed for fresh wine leads to the dwarves' flight. Most races share a common trait, greed, which often leads to their downfall. JRR Tolkien astutely describes in The Hobbit how greed often leads to a disastrous outcome. Greed can strike any type of person, even the leader of a group. Thorin, the leader of the dwarves, is gripped by greed for the riches of the mountain. Secondary characters can also be drawn into greed. The spiders attempt to harvest the largest amount of food for the group, but end up losing all the food. (Linker) The antagonists' disastrous ending is mainly due to greed. On the one hand, Smaug wants revenge for the missing golden cup. After several days of fighting, Smaug is killed during the Battle of the Men of the Lake. Society as a whole believes that the need for materialistic goods is worth the agony required to obtain them..