Beowolf LRJ #2

Fong Vang
Peifer
10 IB hr5
4 December 2008

The values in the story Beowolf were trust, because they trusted Beowolf on slaying the monster "Now help depends again on you and on you alone" (Heaney, 1376). Also Friendship was a value in Beowolf "Aeschere was everything the world admires in a wise man and a friend, then this roaming killer came in a fury and slaughter him in Heorot" (Heaney, 1328).

The unrealistic part of this story is when Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother underwater. It is impossible for someone to breath that long underwater. They should have already drown if being underwater for that long. "Watching the lake water, saw a heave-up and surge of waves and blood in the backwash." (Heaney, 1592). This maybe unrealistic but it sure makes the story more dramatic, with its every word it should make you imagine yourself visualizing what is happening. Also demons and ghost are also unrealistic. They were added to show that Grendel's ancestry came from them on how he came from beasts!

The quotes most interesting and the ones that catches my eyes are the one with action. "Meanwhile, the sword began to wilt into gory icicles, to slather and thaw." (Heaney,1606).
This just shows me how much effect was being added, on how the sword made so much drama. "He died in battle, paid with his life; now this powerful other one arrives." (Heaney, 1337). Now this one was also my favorite, because he tells the Beowolf how Grendel died and now they are to pay because another one has arrived to savage their city.