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    Grendel One of the most compelling and highly developed characters in the novel Grendel‚ written by John Gardner‚ and the poem Beowulf‚ written by an anonymous poet‚ is the monster‚ Grendel. Even though these pieces show two different sides to Grendel they are similar in many ways. Grendel evokes sympathy toward the hideous monster by making him seem like the victim‚ while Beowulf portrays him as being the most loathsome of enemies. The reasons behind Grendel’s being‚ his killing‚

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    John Gardner’s novel‚ Grendel‚ takes place in the fourth century A.D. in Denmark. The novel is about Grendel‚ a monster that lives in a cave with his mother who is unable to communicate with him due to her lack of ability to speak‚ and fails to fit in among humans‚ causing him to live a secluded life. Grendel was written in order to help people understand the very nature of mankind. Summary: In the very first chapter of the novel‚ Grendel is being introduced as any ordinary monster you could imagine

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    the story Beowulf and the story Grendel was very extreme. The characters were different in many ways. In Beowulf‚ Grendel was made to seem like a monster. No human attributes of all. He was killing without a cause. In the story of GrendelGrendel was changing from human to monster‚ yet he still had human attributes. He could talk‚ he actually felt something in the beginning of the story‚ he had an addiction‚ the most human of all his traits. In the story Grendel states “I fled with the body to the

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    part of the novel. This is especially true in the novel‚ Grendel. The zodiological and philosophical content in the novel‚ Grendel‚ have pushed out the whole other perspective of the novel‚ which is in Beowulf’s point of view. The first way the other perspective is lost by the philosophical and zodiological point of view is when Grendel slips on the blood when fighting Beowulf. When Grendel is fighting Beowulf in Hrothgar’s Mead Hall‚ Grendel says‚ “I have fallen! Slipped on blood.” (169). In the

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    13 Reasons Why is a novel by Jay Asher‚ that will stay with me because it has genuinely changed my outlook on life. I was fascinated by the character Hannah Baker and her poetic way of describing the terrible events that changed her life. Hannah sends 13 cassette tapes to people she blames for her suicide‚ before killing herself by taking a handful of pills. The book is set around Clay Jensen‚ the ninth person to receive the tapes out of twelve. I was fascinated at how all of these people in

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    Reasons Why Relationships Fail There are many reasons why relationships fail. The most common reasons are the lack of trust‚ communication‚ respect‚ and honesty. All these combined make a solid foundation for the rest of the relationship structure. It is similar to building a house if there is not a solid foundation the rest of the structure will not be able to hold together. Relationships require all these elements to be successful. There are many other elements that can also contribute to a relationship

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    Fachry Ihdam Alhamdani 014201000073 MGT 2 Topic: The reasons why the world’s languages are disappearing Language is everything; because language is a part of culture which is inseparable with human’s life. People speak by their language regardless of what language they use. There are more than 60.000 languages which do exist in the world; but unfortunately nowadays every fortnight‚ a language dies; more than half of the world’s languages are in danger; and by the end of this century it is going

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    "Attack" is a poem written in 1917 by Siegfried Sassoon while he was convalescing from his wounds in a hospital in Scotland. He was a soldier who fought in the First World War. Attack is a short‚ 13-line poem written in speech rhythm with some rhyme. The poem is described in a very vivid way which makes the reader think that the author himself witnessed the scene. The poem begins with the poet describing the setting of the poem. The landscape is in a battlefield where there are still remains of previous

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    Grendel Chapter 1: Chapter one is mostly about Grendel’s problems: why is he the way he is? why he should kill in order to survive? and why everybody are so stupid for him? “And so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war. The pain of it! The stupidity!”(p. 5) I wonder why did Grendel have a war with humans. He is very rageful and angry character but at the same time he is reasonable in his thoughts. He hates everything that surrounds him: “Him too I hate‚ the same as I hate these brainless

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    from something. One of the major reasons and concerns are they want to escape from family problems. There tends to be family violence in the home of either physical or mental abuse. Sexual molestation from a family member or someone around them can also trigger a teen runaway. Or failure to give attention to the youth as now a days parents might be at work all the time and do not provide adequate attention to the youth with results in a feeling of neglect.

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