Which line from grendel best shows the darker side of the character beowulf? a. the stranger said it all so calmly, so softly, that it was impossible to laugh. (162) b. he paused, his eyebrows cocked, and glanced at the coastguard and smiled. (155) c. he's whispering — spilling words like showers of sleet, his mouth three inches from my ear. (169) d. except for his curious beardlessness, there is nothing frightening about the stranger. (164)

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Grendel is a role in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is one of the poem's three opponents, all arranged in action to the protagonist Beowulf. Grendel is worried by all but Beowulf. Grendel is represented as dropped from the family of the Biblical character Cain, from Genesis 4 of the Bible.

nervous or scared i would say

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