Beowulf

Grant Smith
August 23, 2003
English

Beowulf


1. When I started reading this book I had already heard from my dad the basic idea of it. I thought it would take forever for Mr. Heaney to get to the part where Beowulf defeats Grendal and then even longer to defeat his mother, but no that was not the case. This book was a very fast paced book perhaps because it was supposed to be a narrative and it wanted to keep you attentive. There was a lot of action and very little slow points in the book that was pretty cool because not a lot of stories do that these days. I also found it very helpful to have the family trees in the back of the book therefore I could refer back to it if I needed to. Something that also made it helpful was the fact that Mr. Heaney put hose little notes on the side of the paper. I found that at some points I couldn’t understand what was happening so I would read the side notes and then go back over the part I didn’t understand and it would help me out a lo...