mondays blog.11/21

Today in the seminar we talked about the relationship between Grendel and Beowulf, As well as Grendel and the dragon. Camily said something about Macbeth and noble mentioned the bear. We talked about whether or not Grendel is good or bad. He is doing things for himself that help him survive and the humans are doing the same thing.  The problem is that what Grendel does to help himself might be a problem for the humans and vice versa. It is not that they harm each other, they do, but it is also the fat that they do not help each other. They have different definitions of good and bad.

Also, some people were conflicted as to whether or not they liked Grendel. I like him. He is childish and naïve. He has this nihilistic idea that teenagers mostly have. He even says “I alone exist” He is also fatalistic to because he believes that the world is meaningless and mechanical. A fatalist believes that there is no purpose and that the world hates them As if the world was a being but it is not.

Grendel says “poor Grendel had an accident” and then says “so may you all”. Grendel is quietly letting the world know that they might mess up to. They should not follow the same path that Grendel took. He is subtly warning them that the way he was living was not the right way, but also hinting that there is no right way. He was defeated. He can not go back now.

My Grendel bible is completely destroyed. I think you would be really really proud of me. (While I was writing that I spelled really wrong, so I guess you would not be proud of me.) hhhhmmmm. There are messy notes all over it and all over the pages in the back of my book with all of the faces. My friends think I am crazy because of how many notes I take for each topic and discussion. This is usually when I inform them that AP Lit is for nerds and we are all nerds. Why don’t we just take our notes and bring out the nerd that lives within all of us.

I’m really excited to finish my outside reading book. I LOVE READING. On Friday night my friend and I spent three hours in Barnes and Noble and we both ran to our favorite books. He ran to “to kill a mockingbird” and then I told him that he is a nerd. I, of course, went straight to Beouwulf! Haha no. Just kidding. White Oleander, paper towns, and One Flew over the Kukoos Nest are my favorite books. Gosh why do you make us so nerdy? I spent my Friday night  at a bookstore… oh my.