As you may have gathered from the title of my blog for the week, I currently have no computer. My precious little notebook has to be sent back to Dell land because my Operating System (Vista...EWWWWW) is corrupted. I told my mom I should have gotten a Mac. I would even be willing to bet its because I was on SparkNotes for some background information on a book I'm currently reading. Actually I think it was from a Facebook application, but I figured I might as well play along with my teachers' notions that SparkNotes is bad. My best friends dad thinks it was a worm that killed my OS which got me thinking about Grendel (not really but I needed a lead in and that worked pretty well).
In the book, the monster Grendel lives like a worm, is treated like a worm, and acts slightly like a worm. The author even mentions some snakes (I think... what are Firesnakes?!?!?!) (PS- Snakes are CREEPY) which are kinda like worms. But anyways, I feel bad for Grendel. What did he ever do to anyone? Especially that bull. He is a poor, helpless, scary looking baby who doesn't really know anything about the world, and therefore doesn't know why he is the way he is or why he receives the scorn and treatment that he does. Why does Hrothgar treat him so cruelly when he is trapped in the tree? Hrothgar mercilessly throws a hatchet at him when Grendel tried to say "Pig". Did Hrothgar seriously expect something that is "part of a tree" to speak English (or whatever language they spoke)? What kind of story would that have made? "Hi, my name is Grendel, and yes, I would greatly enjoy a pig right now. And if you could release me from this trees binding grasp while you're at it, I might remember that when I try to kill you in a few years
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