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How is Grendel characterized in this excerpt?
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.
as humorous and comical
as violent and dangerous
as upset and confused
as weak and sickly

What is the most likely reason why the movie director left out this part of the novel?

In the play "sorry wrong number"which part of the story can you find heightened tension and suspense?

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.