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Grendel The Monster With Feelings - Essay

Grendel The Monster With Feelings

Hailie Dwyer
3[rd]/4[th] hour
March 15[th] 2012

Grendel The Monster With Feelings

In the book Grendel, the author made the decision to use the character Grendel as the narrator. He knew that the readers would understand more about Grendel's feelings. To know the real Grendel, you need to read it from his point of view, not anyone else's. The story made more sense because it was written in stream of consciousness. Stream of consciousness means that the author writes down everything that he is thinking. In Grendel we got to read everything from his heart, his true feelings about everything. The story would have been really different if we hadn't gotten to see who he was and what he ...

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speak. "I sobbed as if heartbroken" (page 19). We know that he had a heart; a real monster wouldn't have a heart. He was sad because he didn't have the life that he wanted; everyone was happy but he wasn't.
With everything that we know about Grendel and his feelings is all stuff that we learned from the book, not from the movie. The movie basically told us the opposite of what was true about him. We would have never known this stuff if the author wouldn't have written in the stream of consciousness. Grendel had many feelings that we did not know about in Beowulf that we learned about in the book. In the movie we got the idea that he was a horrible monster who didn't care about anything or anyone. Beowulf told the story from the dans point of view not Grendel's. So by John Gardner choosing to use stream of consciousness we really saw who Grendel was. Grendel seems way more human in the book rather than the movie. "I laughed my ankle was numb; my leg was on fire to the hip" (page ...

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Added: 4/16/2012 10:44:08 PM
Submitted By: hailie_dwyer
Category: Book Reports
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Words: 630
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