Journal 5

In the beginning of the novel, Grendel is not very intellectual; however, as the novel goes on, he developed more intelligence. Grendel struggled to have some kind of communication with someone other than himself. Up until when he first found the human world, Grendel was limited to his speechless mother being his only companion. Even after he discovered the human world, he was limited in speech because no one would give him the time to talk. Grendel was almost always limited to talking to himself and no one else. During Grendel’s narration, he developed more language skills as he got further into the story. He wrote in stream of consciousness in some places. Towards the conclusion of the novel, Grendel even started writing like it was a script in some places. As Grendel gets more intelligent, the novel gets more descriptive and he experiments with more styles of writing.