UNIT 1 The Anglo-saxons

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1)The student deepens understanding of literacy by relating those things to the past and now, to their own life. Paying attention to all literature will make the student better equipped and they will have a better understanding. By comparing and contrasting with past history the student will understand literature more.

2) I thought Beowulf was a particularly interesting piece of writing. It wasn't really a story; more of a poem really. Anglo-Saxon culture sounds confusing, like it wouldn't have been very organized. There are many parts of this story that intrigued me. The worst part of the whole story is that he died and he cant celebrate after his sound victory.


In the first part of the story Beowulf come to the aid of the Danes. That part kind of stuck out because he didn't have to do that. It really wasn't Beowulf's problem at all. He could have just stayed where he was and not broken a sweat. I don't know if he did it out of pride or just to help people in need, either way he didn't have to come.


Later on in the story Grendel's mother attacked, never saw that coming. What happened to Grendel's dad? It seems that he would be the one to avenge his sounds slaying instead of his mother. She was pretty strong and it took him a while to take her out. He had some trouble with his sword and stuff. That part stuck out to me because i didn't think that his mom would be next in line to fight.


I think the Angelo-Saxon culture is pretty cool and is my favorite setting in most video games. Instead of guns and tanks, I like the games where there are swords, axes, mythical creatures getting slayed by knights. I like the fact that they believed in Gods that have special jobs such as Thor, with his lightning. In this case Beowulf was a warrior in those times and was a major character of Anglo-Saxon culture. Anglo-Saxon culture is around because people believe in angels.

Beowulf didn't receive any sudden power out of nowhere like the modern day heroes today. If we compared him to somebody like Ironman, the two heroes are very different depending on the aspect of culture. Ironman basically made his suit, he wasn't given any kind of powers at birth.

At the end of the story as things were wrapping up Beowulf dies. That sucks so bad, i really didn't see it coming at all. In hero stories the hero is supposed to live on and be a great leader. In modern day hero stories the hero doesn't die. Its strange that he feels happy wen he died because he did a good job defending his people and holding up the throne for a long time. I bet if he had a son then his story would go on just like Beowulf's. He would have gotten some pretty sweet armor too.