Bilbo's Transformation In The Hobbit

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After reading chapters 1 through 5 in the book The Hobbit; I’ve realized a character’s traits have changed. While on a quest the main character, Bilbo Baggins, who at the beginning of the book would not be going on adventures and quests with the dwarves,but would be waiting on his customer and washing the dishes. Bilbo has two sides. The side that are known as the tooks and the normal side of him. On adventures the brave, adventurous, and light thinking Bilbo Baggins would use his took side of himself. Making him do things no one had ever seen him do before . Bilbo was being brave when he had chosen to scout ahead to see what was the source of a light in the forest. Bilbo had to be as stealthy as a ninja because if he was

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