Grendel


Grendel is an unhappy soul in John Gardner's book "Grendel", because he
feels useless in society and doesn't want to accept his given role. Throughout
this whole book Grendel feels he has no friend in the outside word and no one to
except him besides his own mother. He doesn't want to except his role in society
which is to be the Great Destroyer. Man creates a huge problem in Grendel's life
and has had a major effect on the way he lives with man.
Grendel is unhappy in many ways. He wants to be accepted by man but never
knew why he was always shunned out of there society. Grendel in the beginning
never set out to hurt man just understand him. When Grendel shows up the first
time in the mead hall he yells "Mercy! Peace!" But no one even gives him a
chance when he walks in holding a dead body and using it for protection against
the drunken men swinging axes and swords at him. Grendel dose not understand
this as he says "they were doomed, I knew, and I was glad."......

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Title: Grendel
Approximate Word Count: 450
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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