Grendel begins his story as a young monster who lives among humans. In the beginning he wants to learn more about their ways of life, and hopes that they can all live together in peace. As Grendel grows older, he realizes how hypocritical the human race can be and is very angered at how they approach life. After meeting with the Dragon, Grendel learns from him that his life will eventually be over and nothing he said or did would matter. The Dragon then told Grendel that he should do whatever he wanted with the humans, if they angered him, then Grendel should kill or fight them. And from that point on Grendel lived his life spying on and killing the humans.
Overall the author did a good job displaying the purpose of the book. He wanted to show Grendels side of the story, and show that although he brutaly murdered many people of the town and didn't feel bad for anything he had done to them, Grendel did not agree with the life that the people were living. He watched them day after day lie and cheat their way through life, much like what happens today. So although Grendel seems like a very hateful, evil monster to the people living in the town, the book shows that he has reasoning behind his actions. Grendel proves that he does know right from wrong by not killing Queen Wealtheow. When the author shows that Grendel could not bring himself to murder the queen he lets the reader know that in fact Grendel does have morals and knows that the queen has very strong values and lives her life unlike the others in the town.
I would probably not recommend this book to other people. I thought that the book was very dark and the plot was very slow and didn't really interest me like other books do. Though I didn't like the main feeling and plot of the novel, I thought that the overall message and point the author was trying to convey was very easily understood. This book relates a lot to the way that many humans live their life today, people feel that the only way to get ahead and get what they want is to lie and cheat, and Grendel does not agree with any of it. Although I didn't care much for the book I understood the basic message and feel that more people should maybe step back and look at the big picture as Grendel had done and our world and our lives in general would be much easier and happier if everybody realized their faults and tryed to correct them.
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