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

C) As upset and confused.

Explanation: Characterization is a literary device that consists in highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. In the given excerpt from "Grendel", Grendel is characterized as upset and confused, we can know this because of the description of him crawling, whimpering, and streaming tears (which shows that he is really upset) and things like "mixed-up lamb" (which shows confusion).

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explanation:

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.