Which sentence from this body paragraph of an informational essay is most clearly the topic sentence?
(1) The most obvious way The Hobbit communicates the theme that
one can never go home again is the scene of Bilbo's return to
Hobbiton. After all he has gone through with Gandalf and the dwarves,
he arrives to find his furniture mostly auctioned off. (2) Moreover,
"Bilbo's cousins, the Sackville-Bagginses were, in fact, busy measuring
his rooms to see if their own furniture would fit" (274). (3) Bilbo wanted
nothing more than to return home, but his home had completely
changed in the time he was gone. (4) This shows in a literal way that a
person can never truly return home.
J. R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1937), 274
A. Sentence 2
B. Sentence 1
C. Sentence 3
D. Sentence 4