When reading Beowulf, I found it very familiar as if I had read it before.  I then decided to put the pieces together and it was pretty much a few of the readings we have done in class.  The character Grendel is said to be a descendant of Cain, who Cain killed his brother Abel.  The class  read the story of the two brother back in the book of Genesis in the hebrew Bible.  I researched that Shield Sheafson was abandoned as a baby by his parents, which in the story of “Oedipus the King,” Oedipus himself was also abandoned as a baby and was destined to die.

I found it interesting to read the “Beowulf” and it’s similarities to some of the other works of literature that was done in class.  I would read the poem and it was quite difficult for me to understand because of the language used.  I had to decode the poem by reading it a second time.  I was confused when reading the poem at first, then reading the poem again made it easier to interpret what was going, how Grendel is trying to destroy in sight.  I am still a little confused in what is going, in the poem, and hope to have a better understanding with further reading.  I would like to discuss the poem a little more thoroughly, or an easier way to read “Beowulf.”