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Hobbit Rhetorical Analysis #1 • Bilbo's Internal Conflict. A pivotal moment occurs in Chapter 5, when our hero is about to stab Gollum to death. "A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish" (page 80). Have you ever experienced a flash of sympathy for someone that you normally found annoying? Is it true that "To know all is to forgive all"? What keeps us from seeing the "hard stone, cold fish" that is the true nature of so many people? • Answer the prompt by using truth from the text to back up your opinions and ideas.