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which statement best describes grendel's perspective?
ng, swords whonking,
and doors of the meadhall
es reared and fell over
bats in a fire, men
ng speeches, dying or
, sneaking off
e driven back, sometimes
down, sometimes they'd
and make his people give
he enjoys watching the violent men kill one another.
o he admires the powerful weapons and strong men.
o he wishes to be part of the excitement somehow.
he feels disgusted by the wasteful natul of war.
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not in a way i could

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.