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Slaying Monsters by Joan Acocella is about a man named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien who wrote a translation about Beowulf. He finished his translation of the poem in 1926, 34 years old. He put it in a drawer and never published it. Tolkien loved medieval stories like "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings." Forty years after his death his son Christopher brought it out of the drawer. In Tolkien's translation he defines the story of Beowulf as a hero that defeats three successive monsters. Grendel being the first. His image of Grendel is that he has claws, doesn't speak, and is four times the size of man. The death of Grendel in Tolkien's translation is that Beowulf rips Grendel's arm off. The next monster Beowulf faces is Grendel's mother. She is extremely anger, goes on a rampage and lives in a swamp. The battle between Beowulf and her ends with her throat slit and dead. The last successive monster is a 50 foot dragon. This dragon breaths fire, has big wings, and lives in a nice cave guarding treasure. This treasure has been his for over three hundred years. The dragon becomes enraged when he finds that his jeweled cup has been stolen. In this great battle Beowulf gets injured, but has a knight named Wiglaf, who comes with Beowulf stabs the dragon and weakens him. Beowulf then "ripped the serpent up." By this time in Beowulf's life he had grown old. In Tolkien's translation Beowulf dies after this great battle. According to Tolkien, “Beowulf” was not an epic or a heroic lay, which might need narrative thrust. It was just a poem.

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I decided to review Gracyn Blakley's post that speaks about her visualization of Grendel. Gracyn is in 8th period. I picked hers because it reminds me of mine in a way. We both agreed that Grendel cant stand seeing people happy and unified together. The way she describes how he tries to find happiness but keeps failing reminds me of how I said he gets sad because others are happy. We also agreed that people look at Grendel and automatically assume the worst, The people don't give him a chance. Gracyn also mentions that Grendel was born innocent as a child but due to the fact his parents were both monsters people assumed he was bad.

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This music reminds me of Darkness is many ways. The creepy noises in the beginning reminds me of how Grendel is very sneaky. As the music continues it sounds very depressing. This reminds me of how sad and scared the people were when Grendel was killing everyone. This song stays at a steady past just how Grendel was when he killed everyone. Then it starts to spread up making me think of Grendel attacking. At this part of the song I can imagine that if a movie was mad this would be playing during the attack of Grendel. The piano comes in to play at the end of this song reminding me of the funerals of all the dead ones and the cries from others.

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I think Grendel looks like a monster from hell. Normally when I picture a monster from hell I see a huge creature with claws, horns, hair everywhere, and sharp teeth. Grendel was conceived from two monstrous parents. I think that since Grendel looks different most people don't give him a chance.He is attempts to find happiness and wants to be apart of the crowd, but since he looks they way he does people ignore him and are frightened by him. In the end of annotation #2 Grendel gets pissed because the people are unified and are very happy. Grendel's weakness is seeing others happy, so he finds joy in others sadness this is why he does what he does.