Read the excerpt from grendel. thus i fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of a baffled, indifferent ewe—and i gnashed my teeth and clutched the sides of my head as if to heal the split, but i couldn’t. how is grendel characterized in this excerpt? as humorous and comical as violent and dangerous as upset and confused as weak and sickly answer is as upset and confused

This excerpt from the book "Grendel" by American author John Gardner characterizes it main character as C - Upset and Confused. This can be deduced from the paragraph. The character Grendel is talking in first person, he says he fled torn apart (hinting confusion), but also whimpering, crying (meaning he was upset and out of control). When he says he gnashed his teeth and clutched the sides of his head it is an example for how upset he was feeling.

The answer cannot be humorous and comical. When it says ridiculous hairy creature it is meant as an attack on himself and is not said for comic purposes. Nothing else in the text hints to it being comical.

The option of violent and dangerous could be considered since he starts talking about himself as a beast, but from everything else in the text we can say that Grendel never attacks verbally anyone, just himself. So the answer is not violent and dangerous.

And there's nothing in the text to hint to Grendel being weak and sickly. The paragraph says that he was torn apart by poetry, and poetry can't make you physically sick.

Read the excerpt from Grendel.

Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of a baffled, indifferent ewe—and I gnashed my teeth and clutched the sides of my head as if to heal the split, but I couldn’t.

How is Grendel characterized in this excerpt?

as humorous and comical

as violent and dangerous

as upset and confused

as weak and sickly

The answer is C.

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