I think there is a shift at “...assured him”. From reading the beginning, you would think the person is under arrest, “stay where you are”. But, the sentence goes on to say that the police officer ‘assured’ him that. He could’ve been in danger, so the officer was telling him that help was on the way, just stay put.
Answer: See explanation
Explanation:
‘’Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like
pennies in a tin Band-Aid box". This is a simile.
The pennies simply refers to the emotions that are rattling inside Rachel. It simply helps us understand the age level or maturity level in a moment. The tone that it's trying to create is an anxious tone. Rachel's emotions are said to be bouncing within her as loudly as the pennies that are in a tin can.
An example would be “If he wasn’t so annoying maybe than I would do the task!”
The first situation in which he used it to get himself out of a jam was when he was escaping from the cave in which he met smeagol, who we know is intensely aggressive when it comes to the ring. He slipped the ring on and it made him seemingly disappear. Another, much more trivial situation was when he bid everyone farewell at his birthday party basically as a show stopper (but also to avoid the judging eyes and boring personalities of his fellow hobbits).
The ring does not make Bilbo tougher, if anything, it makes him weaker. The power of the ring breaks him down mentally and physically.
