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* When Strawberry joins the band of travelers. Silver sneers at him that they don't like rabbits who betray them, and he'd "Better go back to Nildro-Hain", his mate. Strawberry gives a cry of pain, and finally manages to whimper two words: "The wires." Having seen firsthand how much Nildro-Hain meant to Strawberry, the news that she has died--so suddenly and unnecessarily--is like a knife in the heart of all readers. The fact that his mate's death hurt him so badly that even someone like Strawberry, so jaded to constant death that he completely shrugged off the loss of his close friend Kingcup, couldn't bear to live without her made this troper tear up. Badly. The heartwarming part is Hazel's immediate response.
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* When Strawberry joins the band of travelers. Silver sneers at him that they don't like rabbits who betray them, and he'd "Better go back to Nildro-Hain", his mate. Strawberry gives a cry of pain, and finally manages to whimper two words: "The wires." Having seen firsthand how much Nildro-Hain meant to Strawberry, the news that she has died--so suddenly and unnecessarily--is like a knife in the heart of all readers. The fact that his mate's death hurt him so badly that even someone like Strawberry, so jaded to constant death that he completely shrugged off the loss of his close friend Kingcup, couldn't bear to live without her made this troper tear up. Badly.her. The heartwarming part is Hazel's immediate response.
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** Also for Pipkin: In the final battle, he begs to be allowed to risk his own life remaining in the Honeycomb to try to wake Fiver, rather than burying himself in a burrow with the others. Hazel has to order him not to do it.
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* Hyzenthlay's poem.
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** "I would rather be here, now, as we are, than to never have left Efrafa."
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* Towards the end of ''Literature/WatershipDown'' (the novel), months after their adventures, Hazel happens upon a mother rabbit telling her kits a story ''ostensibly'' starring the rabbit's legendary hero El-ahrairah. It gradually dawns on him that the tale is [[spoiler:really ''his'' story: the tale of the escape of his TrueCompanions from Sandleford and journey to Watership Down]]. Many {{tears of joy}} ensue.
* At the end, when an old and weary Hazel suddenly starts feeling better than he ever had in his whole life... [[spoiler:then turns and sees his own dead body lying in the grass. He feels just a fleeting moment of regret, then happily bounds off to join all those who've gone before.]]
* At the end, when an old and weary Hazel suddenly starts feeling better than he ever had in his whole life... [[spoiler:then turns and sees his own dead body lying in the grass. He feels just a fleeting moment of regret, then happily bounds off to join all those who've gone before.]]
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* Towards the end of ''Literature/WatershipDown'' (the novel), months after their adventures, Hazel happens upon a mother rabbit telling her kits a story ''ostensibly'' starring the rabbit's legendary hero El-ahrairah. It gradually dawns on him that the tale is [[spoiler:really really ''his'' story: the tale of the escape of his TrueCompanions from Sandleford and journey to Watership Down]].Down. Many {{tears of joy}} ensue.
* At the end, when an old and weary Hazel suddenly starts feeling better than he ever had in his whole life...[[spoiler:then then turns and sees his own dead body lying in the grass. He feels just a fleeting moment of regret, then happily bounds off to join all those who've gone before.]]
* At the end, when an old and weary Hazel suddenly starts feeling better than he ever had in his whole life...
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A small point, but if Hazel had been hit with *buckshot* he would have been smeared over half of Berkshire.
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** When Kehaar finds out Hazel has been shot, he expresses concern and asks if Fiver has removed the 'black stones' (AKA buckshot) to help Hazel recover. Then when Kehaar sees Hazel, he begins to diligently pluck the shot from Hazel's leg with his beak.
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** When Kehaar finds out Hazel has been shot, he expresses concern and asks if Fiver has removed the 'black stones' (AKA buckshot) (shot) to help Hazel recover. Then when Kehaar sees Hazel, he begins to diligently pluck the shot from Hazel's leg with his beak.
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** Best of all, after the group makes it to the Down, Hazel rewards Bigwig's trust in him, as well as the trust of the others, recognizing that his planning alone couldn't replace Bigwig's experience and courage, Fiver's insight or Blackberry's intelligence etc. The new warren is eventually run by a 'free and easy' Owsla. All contributions made by rabbits are given equal respect and there doesn't appear to be anything in the way of oppressive hierarchy such as at Efrafa or even Sandleford, where bigger rabbits get the choicest food and mates and bully the weaker rabbits. Every rabbit of the Down is an equal member entitled to the same privileges as anyone else.
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* When the Black Rabbit comes to claim Hazel, he turns out to be [[DontFearTheReaper very polite and friendly,]] reassuring Hazel that the warren will continue to thrive. His calling is more like an invitation [[AndTheAdventureContinues to go on a new adventure,]] and Hazel is happy to enter the next life.
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* When El-Ahrairah (or the Black Rabbit Rabbit, in the movie) comes to claim Hazel, he turns out to be [[DontFearTheReaper very polite and friendly,]] reassuring Hazel that the warren will continue to thrive. His calling is more like an invitation [[AndTheAdventureContinues to go on a new adventure,]] and Hazel is happy to enter the next life.
