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If you have read the book "GRENDEL".....summer reading help?

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Well I wasn't exactly aware we had to read this (although I read everything else I was supposed to).

And unfortunately, I have to answer these questions by tomorrow.

1. What is the significance of the title?

2. What is the major theme of the work?

3. Describe one scene from the work that reveals or demonstrates the theme. Include one brief quote from the scene (cite the page number) and be prepared to share it with the class along with an explanation of how the quote represents the theme.

4. How important is setting to the novel, and what specifically does it influence?

5. Who is the narrator, and what is the point of view?

6. What is the central conflict around which the work centers?

7. List the most important major and minor characters in the selection and provide two precise adjectives to descri8. For each major character named in item 7, provide one quotation from the selection to illustrate the character’s central personality traits. Be sure to identify the character and cite the page number on which you found the quote.

9. Identify characters by their function, such as narrator, protagonist, antagonist, or foil. How do these characters and the roles they play impact the plot of the novel?

10. Identify one passage that represents the writer’s style. Note outstanding features of style, such as diction, dialect, figurative language, syntax, or tone. Provide specific quotations and cite the page number.

If anyone can answer one or any of them, it'd be awsome. i'd really appreciate it. I finished my other ones easily. But I don't even have this book!

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  1. There is an online sparknotes for Grendel-http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/grendel/th...

    you could use the "important quotes" part for your passages

    i would suggest buying the book and reading it before you have a test- it's very easy to read!

    1. I'm not entirely sure, but I do think the world is titled Grendel because it's sort of a companion piece to Beowulf. Beowulf was all about Beowulf, Grendel is all about Grendel: it's the same story from two different perspectives.

    2. the falsehood of art; also: meaninglessness/nihilism

    3. Grendel thinking about the shaper's effect on the people.

    passage ->

    "He takes what he finds," I said stubbornly, trying again. "And by changing men's minds he makes the best of it. Why not" But it sounded petulant; and it wasn't true, I knew. He sang for pay, for the praise of women -one in particular- and for the honor of a famous king's hand on his arm. If the ideas of art were beautiful, that was art's fault, not the Shaper's. A blind selector, almost mindless: a bird. Did they murder eachother more gently because in the woods sweet songbirds sang? (p49)

    4.

    5. Grendel is the narrator, 1st person POV

    6. Grendel struggling to find his place in a world he finds to be completely meaningless

    7. Major-> Grendel, Hrothgar, Beowulf

    Minor-> Wealtheow, Unferth ("You think me deluded. Tricked by my own walking fairytale. You think I came without a hope of winning- came to escape indignity by suicide!" p89)

    8. narrator-> grendel,

    there is technically no antagonist or protagonist

    unferth and beowulf are foils

    beowulf and hrothgar are foils

    the shaper and grendel are kind of foils

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