Bilbo's Transformation In The Hobbit

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Bravery, powerful, strength and humble. These are some of the main characteristics that you might find in a hero of a novel. This idea presents us a hero who is a natural leader and respected by his group because of his skill to lead other people. A hero is also a person who very humble among the ones his race and people around him. In the novel, The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien presents a person who is truly a one of a kind hero, Bilbo Baggins. Throughout the story, Bilbo does through many changes and this changes were big changes in his personality compared to the beginning of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, the first chapters we see Bilbo as a person who would not be considered a hero right away. He ignored to embark an adventure that

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