Beowulf

Alright, so this is a nugget of gold that I missed out on in high school. I had AP so and my amazing teacher taught us Beloved by Toni Morrison and the regular Honors class read Beowulf.
I quite enjoyed it. Yes it was weird but not in a bad way. Like we discussed in class, it was very reminiscent of C.S Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien. I thought that the idea of Grendel being cursed because he was a descendant of the Abel's kin was brilliant. I also don't think that this has to be a strictly Christian novel. I rather miss my AP days when we analyzed the rhetoric and literary credibility of a work rather than just tossing around the applied theology of it. My AP teacher also said that if anyone ever asked her what book they absolutely should ever read she would tell them the Bible. But not for reasons that you might think. She said this because of the countless allusions made to it in literary masterpieces. Anyway, I enjoyed Beowulf and I'm glad that I finally got the chance to read it.