Truth

What is the truth in Grendel? Is there truth in The Shaper’s stories and poems? Or is truth what The Dragon says? Or maybe, is truth what Grendel sees? The Shaper paints pictures of happiness, with good triumphing over bad and with everything being right and just. He praises his master, Hrothgar and tells of his glory. But if everything he says is true, then is what he says about Grendel true? Maybe he’s a monster and just never knew it. But he acts like humans. But The Dragon also says that Grendel is evil. He says that things are predetermined and that everyone has a role and Grendel’s role is to be an unstoppable monster to the people in Hrothgar’s kingdom. But Grendel is new to the outside world. He is still innocent, still figuring things out. But is he evil? Maybe the two sources of knowledge are disagree with each other in most ways, but they both agree that Grendel is bad and that there’s nothing he can do about it because it is ‘fate’. Grendel is new and has just started interacting with humans. He kills animals, but that’s for food, not for territory or for fun, like he’s seen humans do. And he doesn’t kill his own kind. Meanwhile, he sees the human having wars, slaughtering each other, destroying villages. He is the one that is attacked by the humans gets caught up in a war thrust upon him. Does that make him the bad one? Are The Shaper and The Dragon correct?

Modern Day Grendel

In the Disney movie Snow White, there are some similarities to the epic poem Beowulf. The biggest similarity is between the characters. Snow White is similar to Beowulf. The biggest similarity between the two of them is that they’re both their heroes of the stories and their stories are named after them. But also, Snow White is happy with her life, both before being with the dwarves and after. She’s loved by many and gets to rule over a kingdom with the prince. Similarly, Beowulf is loved, admired and looked up to by many people because of his fame and rules a kingdom as well. The Evil Queen is most similar to Grendel. They’re both villains that want desperately to take down the heroes. Their reasons are very similar. The queen knows that Snow White is more beautiful than her and is envious. She wants people to love her. Grendel is an outcast, living on his own. He wants to be a part of the celebration and happiness that he can hear at night. Although the stories of Snow White and Beowulf are very different, it can be said that when the most basic elements of the two works are compared, they have essentially the same major elements.

Me

So this is my 'About Me' thing. Some basic facts include the following:

• I am a female
• I am a sophomore
• I am 15
• Wow I really don't like writing lists

So anyways (Side note on anyways: my family constantly complains that it "isn't proper English" etc, etc. But my computer recognizes it as a word so I guess I'm right. I'll still keep using it no matter what), stuff about me. Uhh I like singing. I'm in a choir outside of school (Chicago Children's Choir). I also sing in a band and also on my own, as a solo singer. I like to pretend that I'm super fantastic at dancing because I'm in Dance 4, but in reality I'm in like Dance -4. I like reading, especially realistic and science fiction. I'd say my favorite author is John Green. I'm not much of a writer (which is why this is weird and very general). Welp, I'd say I've introduced myself enough. So yeah.