Read the following excerpt from john gardner's grendel
being young, unable to face these things, i would bawl and
hurl myself at my mother and she would reach out her
claws and seize me, though i could see i alarmed her (1
had teeth like a saw), and she would smash me to
as if to make me a part of her flesh again. after that,
comforted, i would gradually ease back out into my games
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which phrase from this excerpt most clearly evokes empathy for grendel?
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a. bawl and hurl
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b. reach out her claws
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c. part of her flesh
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d. alarmed her

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