Read this sentence from john gardner's grendel in which the main character speaks about an event in his childhood. i twisted around as far as i could, hunting wildly for her shape on the cliffs, but there was nothing, or rather, there was everything but my mother. what implicit information about the main character is contained in this sentence? a. seeing the truth around himself will always be hard for grendel. b. grendel will spend his life straining to get free from his mother. c. hunting and fishing will become grendel's favorite pastimes. d. grendel's later violence is rooted in his childhood fear and isolation.

Grendel's later violence is rooted in his childhood fear and isolation. - APEX

The answer is D) Grendel's later violence is rooted in his childhood fear and isolation

Explanation:

According to John Gardner's Grendel, the character did not live a happy childhood. There were several moments where he felt alone and forgotten. He is scared of being left aside and struggles from the isolation. All these aspects led him to become a violent creature who enjoys killing others without remorse.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human