Medea
In a society that is driven by violence, why would a fictional book about a monster that does nothing worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger, in one of his action films, stir up controversy? Children of any age can turn on the T.V. or radio and either see or hear something related to violence. Even the racist, bigot, rapper Eminem can clog up the radio stations with his senseless profanity and threats to create harm to women or homosexuals, yet a senior in high school should be kept from reading an educational book based on the famous poem, Beowulf?Grendel is a book written to tell the story of Beowulf, in the monsters point of view. This book teaches lessons that are of use to the people who read it. It shows how Grendel reaches out to human beings for affection, because of the affection he does not receive from his mother. Grendel is not as bad a character as everyone makes him out to be, he is just immature, sensitive, and unsure of himself. The quote in Chapter 1, "...my brains raging at the sickness I can observe in myself" helps prove that Grendel notices he is angered by the fact that he does
life, just trying to find ourselves, but instead of reaching his goal, Grendel's journey ends horribly. The quote also proves that he needs to find himself and his camu, which basically says, the only thing you can be sure of is your essence and faith in God. This mother argues, in her article written to her local paper, that if this book were turned into a movie it would be rated R and therefore should not be on a high school senior required reading list. In a way Grendel is like every human being in the world; we are all on a long journey, a. No one should be kept from reading this book just because of her opinion alone, because she did not provide valid reasons to ban it, and therefore should be brought back onto reading lists effective immediately. In the Bible Jesus is beaten and is forced to drag a cross through a city with people laughing, spitting on him, and mocking him. If this book should be banned from appearing on reading lists in schools across America, then we cant stop there! We need start by taking the Bible off the market and out of churches and Catholic schools; after all there are stories of murder, greed, and manipulation in it. I don't feel as if it was written to bring people down, but on the other hand to make the reader realize his of her life isn't so bad and they should think more optimistic. This example may have been proven to be a little extreme, but I also think it helps prove my point in showing how ridiculous this ant-Grendel letter is and why the reason for writing this letter is unclear and not completely thought out. He has no faith in himself, let alone god, and in his journey throughout this book he tries to find himself. n't know himself, which is causing his "sickness". It seems a bit absurd to cause such a controversy over something meant to cause no harm, and just have an alternate view of something. The book also concentrates on nihilism, which is everything in the world gone bad, like a sort of flip on society.
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