Summary of Beowulf

by Chandler Demidovich
opening paragraph by Valerie Lee



While going through some old papers last night, I came across the following summary. It was  written by my son, Chandler. It made me giggle and made me wonder what teacher he wrote it for. There are a couple of "cuss" words in there, which is something I'd never have gotten away with in junior high! So I called him and asked what grade he was in at the time and who did he turn this interesting piece of homework to? He said, "Mom...Dude...You made me write that!" Ha! He said it was when he was about 15 years old and we were having trouble transferring schools. I didn't want him to fall behind. Here's what he wrote:

Summary of Beowulf

The book starts out with a king (Harrathhor) ... he builds a bad ass meal hall for his men ... they end up getting drunk and they wake up to a demon beast thing. The thing rips them up   arms flying all over...ew.

Beowulf gets news about the attacks. He orders a fleet of ships across the sea to go whoop ass. When he gets there the king questions him. Here is the conversation translated in modern tongue.

King: Who the hell are you:
Wulf: I'm Beowulf.
King: Oh! Really? You are a bad ass. Welcome.
Beowulf: cool. Thanks.

Anyway, Beowulf beats the monster's ass. Rips off his arm. Then the monster's mom gets pissed, so he beats her ass too.

Then Beowulf is showered with thanks and gifts. He sails back home and then his king dies, as did the king's son. Beowulf takes the throne and then has to fight a dragon. 

He ends up beating the dragon's ass, but he was bitten. The poison killed him.

Bummer.

by Chandler Demidovich