Theme of envy: As a descendent of Cain, Grendel is the biblical son of Adam and Eve, who out of jealousy kills his brother Abel (Genesis 4). He is eternally doomed. Grendel's response in envy to Heorot's light filled and happy celebrations. The scops "Song of Creation" reminds him of the loss he suffered because of Cain's sin and makes him angry and seek for revenge from him stemming envy.
Theme of revenge: The central theme of revenge serves as motivation to many characters. Grendel delights in revenging Heorot as he hates about other men success, glory, joy and favor in the eyes of god.
Grendel's mother avenges Heorot against her son's death, motivated by mother's fury.
The dragons embark revenge against fugitive slave for theft from his hoard of treasure by raiding the countryside and burning the Beowulf's home to which Beowulf seeks revenge against dragons for the destruction caused.
Some of the ways to use the reading strategy of chunking the words are:
- List unfamiliar words
- Find out the meaning of the words
- Make use of context clues
- Use synonyms
- Paraphrase
- Read aloud, etc.
<h3>What is Chunking the Text?</h3>
This refers to the reading strategy that is used to organize a large text into subsections that would make it easier to read and understand the text.
Hence, we can see that with the above tips, you can read the free-verse narrative passage from <em>Under the Mesquite</em>, understand it and then chunk the words to find if it uses clear transitions or not.
Also, transition words are used to show the link between ideas in a sentence and they include words like: "because, therefore, but", etc.
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'my friends" and "we" he wants to show a sense of unity like they are going n the journey together
