The poet Ampleforth is the character who was surprisingly thrown in the cell with Winston, the main character.
The surprise isn't really that the poet was jailed, but that he ended up in the same cell as Winston, after all, he had been slipping forbiden words into his poem's "translations" before, a very punishable offense.
All you have to do is restate your topic sentence but in a different way and make your point more clear.
Do you mean why didn’t Bilbo or Thorin kill Smaug?
Answer:
1. She asked them if they've been to England before.
2.She wanted to know if they would visit the cathedral.
3.He asked them how old they were.
4.The man asked them how long they would stay in the village
5.They asked when he arrived.
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