Compare And Contrast Grendel Vs Beowulf

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Grendel vs Beowulf
Grendel and Beowulf are both interesting books although Grendel may have done wrong by killing, the story he tells makes him seem very intelligent and that he is not just a killer. However, one of these stories is better than the other, sure Beowulf is a good story too, but Grendel is overall better .The author in Grendel uses more of a creative word choice. Grendel’s book portrays the story better because of the detail in the story, the specific, smart, and variety of word choice that Grendel uses and lastly, the huge fight at the end of the story has much more detail and it creates images in the reader's head, it has more action and it made the fight more understandable. With all these things being said
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Beowulf’s version was pretty simple and did not have a lot of detail in it. The whole time Grendel and Beowulf were fighting, Beowulf kept whispering to him and he was chanting a song in Grendel's ear. “ A meaningless swirl in the stream of time, a temporary gathering of bliss, a few random specks, a cloud … complexities: green dust, purple dust, gold. Additional refinements: sensitive dust, copulating dust.” Keep in mind, Beowulf is holding on very tightly to Grendel, “ Nowhere on middle-earth, I realize, have I encountered a grip like his.” All this creates an image in the reader's head. In the book Beowulf the battle at the end seems very bland and not interesting, it does not mention the chants that Beowulf was saying to Grendel while he was beating him up.
The detail in both Grendel and Beowulf are outstanding. Grendel though describes everything with more detail. Everything in Grendel gives the reader an image in their head. One example would be, “ The old ram stands looking down over rockslides stupidly.” This examples gives the reader a image in his head of what is happening. Grendel uses actions to describe what he is trying to explain. He says that a ram is looking down a rockslide, and immediately it makes a picture in the reader's head of a ram looking down a

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