“There is no worse robber than a bad book”(Proverb). The fiction novel Grendel was such a dreadful book that it's worse than being robbed of your possessions. Grendel is about the twelve year between the Danes and Grendel and what happened during it. The story is told in Grendel's point of view in which Gardner portrayed him as a lonely and evil monster. Gardner throughout the novel uncovers the internal and external conflicts. Then at the end of the novel Grendel’s major external conflict is revealed which is his fight with Beowulf. The author also includes the problems Grendel faces with relationships between his mother and the humans. Grendel by John Gardner in 1971 is an atrocious novel because of its slow and predictable plot, the undeveloped
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An example of how the pot is slow is by the unnecessary details that the author adds throughout the novel. Gardner adds details about animals and how they reacts to Grendel which delays the plot from progressing. “I watch a great horned goat ascend the rocks toward my mere… He watches it fall, then turns his head, looks up at me disapprovingly”(Gardner 139). Grendel hears a goat climbing up the cliff wall and throws boulders and a tree at the goat till it stops climbing.The author added this detail that didn’t have an impact or affect on the plot at all. Another example of the novels slow plot is that the major conflict happens at the end of the novel. The reader only reads about the minor internal and external conflicts that Grendel faces. In the novel, Grendel just talks about how he would go to the hall and kill people but his monumental fight with Beowulf happens at the end of the novel. The last example of how the slot is predictable is that the reader knows the stranger Grendel fights with at the end of the novel is Beowulf, although the author never says. The novel Beowulf discuss the same fight of which Grendel faced in this novel, so the reader knew what was going to happen to Grendel in the end. To summarize Grendel is an atrocious novel because of the fact the Gardner adds unimportant details, the plot doesn’t progress at a quick rate, and that the …show more content…
The first prominent characters that is undeveloped is Grendel’s mother who is mention often but isn’t described in detail. Even after Grendel's death the author could’ve written about the fight between Grendel's mother and Beowulf and how she reacted to the death of her son.Even though the mother is a supportug character the author didn’t go into depth and didn’t create a background of the mother for the reader to connect. The second character that Gardner left undeveloped is Hrothgar. The author barely mentions any detail about Hrothgar. In the novel the audience doesn’t see Hrothgar welcome and talk to the Geats about the war and how he people are brave to fight. In the literature work of Beowulf Hrothgar welcome the Geats and thanks Beowulf and discuss that his people are brave. The reader never see the characteristics of Hrothgar that were in the piece of literature Beowulf which makes Hrothgar from Beowulf and Hrothgar from Grendel two different characters. The last character that is undeveloped is Beowulf. John Gardner never even mentions his name, he refers to Beowulf as a stranger. If the audience didn’t read Beowulf they wouldn’t know who Gardner was referring to at the end of the novel. “ The stranger stopped eating, smiled … The stranger smiled, glanced at Unferth”(160). When Grendel was watching the Stranger and the Danes talk in the meadhall the Danes never say Beowulf name,
An example of how the pot is slow is by the unnecessary details that the author adds throughout the novel. Gardner adds details about animals and how they reacts to Grendel which delays the plot from progressing. “I watch a great horned goat ascend the rocks toward my mere… He watches it fall, then turns his head, looks up at me disapprovingly”(Gardner 139). Grendel hears a goat climbing up the cliff wall and throws boulders and a tree at the goat till it stops climbing.The author added this detail that didn’t have an impact or affect on the plot at all. Another example of the novels slow plot is that the major conflict happens at the end of the novel. The reader only reads about the minor internal and external conflicts that Grendel faces. In the novel, Grendel just talks about how he would go to the hall and kill people but his monumental fight with Beowulf happens at the end of the novel. The last example of how the slot is predictable is that the reader knows the stranger Grendel fights with at the end of the novel is Beowulf, although the author never says. The novel Beowulf discuss the same fight of which Grendel faced in this novel, so the reader knew what was going to happen to Grendel in the end. To summarize Grendel is an atrocious novel because of the fact the Gardner adds unimportant details, the plot doesn’t progress at a quick rate, and that the …show more content…
The first prominent characters that is undeveloped is Grendel’s mother who is mention often but isn’t described in detail. Even after Grendel's death the author could’ve written about the fight between Grendel's mother and Beowulf and how she reacted to the death of her son.Even though the mother is a supportug character the author didn’t go into depth and didn’t create a background of the mother for the reader to connect. The second character that Gardner left undeveloped is Hrothgar. The author barely mentions any detail about Hrothgar. In the novel the audience doesn’t see Hrothgar welcome and talk to the Geats about the war and how he people are brave to fight. In the literature work of Beowulf Hrothgar welcome the Geats and thanks Beowulf and discuss that his people are brave. The reader never see the characteristics of Hrothgar that were in the piece of literature Beowulf which makes Hrothgar from Beowulf and Hrothgar from Grendel two different characters. The last character that is undeveloped is Beowulf. John Gardner never even mentions his name, he refers to Beowulf as a stranger. If the audience didn’t read Beowulf they wouldn’t know who Gardner was referring to at the end of the novel. “ The stranger stopped eating, smiled … The stranger smiled, glanced at Unferth”(160). When Grendel was watching the Stranger and the Danes talk in the meadhall the Danes never say Beowulf name,