In this activity, you'll draft a one-paragraph persuasive message board post about Grendel. Your post will respond to a post tha
t you disagree with. You'll use evidence from Grendel to craft a fair and well-supported rebuttal, and then you will complete two additional short responses to your classmates' posts. The following pages and your writing guide will help you. Be sure to answer all the questions in your writing guide; by doing so, you'll have a draft of your assignment by the end of this activity.
This writing assignment will focus on the following skills:
Establishing a debatable and straightforward claim
Gathering relevant evidence to support a claim
Fairly and effectively refuting a counterclaim
Using technology to participate in an online debate
Answer:Writing from Grendel's point of view, makes him seem more monstrous and dangerous.
Explanation:Writing from Grendel's perspective makes him seem more monstrous. Even though we get to see the story from his perspective, he has a very narrow range of emotions. He is unable to relate to the actual humans in the book, showing that he is fundamentally different from them. Beowulf and the other warriors are typical humans, and Grendel is a one-dimensional monster.
The lack of common ground between these two kinds of characters makes the division between them very obvious. Therefore, it's difficult to find sympathy for Grendel as you would for another human.
