Post by rileyhatfield on Aug 30, 2013 0:12:51 GMT
While I was discussing this book with a friend, the scene where young Grendel gets caught in between a two trees that had conjoined at a point, making one tree essentially.
"One morning I caught my foot in the crack where two old treetrunks joined. 'Owp!' I yelled. 'Mama! Waa!'" (18).
We started thinking about what the tree could symbolize (since every English discussion needs a good tree symbolism). Coincidentally we came up with a pretty good one and I wanted to know what other people thought of it. So, Grendel is stuck between being animal and being human. Could the tree represent him being caught in the middle of the two halves that make him and the inner struggle that he goes through every day? Is there a different symbolism to the tree? Is there any symbolism to the tree at all? Why or why not?
"One morning I caught my foot in the crack where two old treetrunks joined. 'Owp!' I yelled. 'Mama! Waa!'" (18).
We started thinking about what the tree could symbolize (since every English discussion needs a good tree symbolism). Coincidentally we came up with a pretty good one and I wanted to know what other people thought of it. So, Grendel is stuck between being animal and being human. Could the tree represent him being caught in the middle of the two halves that make him and the inner struggle that he goes through every day? Is there a different symbolism to the tree? Is there any symbolism to the tree at all? Why or why not?