Ubaldo Torres Final Exam

In the story of Beowulf, the hero journey is shown real well. It start as King Hrothgar call Beowulf to kill Grendel. Then he call Beowulf again to kill Grendel's mother after she found out that they had killed her son. Then he is called once again to defeat the dragon and take his treasure. At last he is about to die and is respected and honored like a true hero.



In the beginning of the story when all the soldiers are having parties, Grendel gets annoyed so he decides to go slaughter the soldiers by eating them. He attacked and killed a few soldiers. That's when Beowulf was called by the King to kill Grendel. Like a hero Beowulf demonstrates his hero side by killing Grendel and by killing him with his bare hands. After Killing Grendel Herot became once again a calm place. Later on Grendel's Mother finds out and gets really angry knowing they killed her son, so she decide to go attack Herot.



Angrily she went and attacked. Once again Beowulf was called by the king to get rid of Grendel's angry mother. Beowulf as a hero comes and shows his skills by fighting Grendel's mom. When he went to her swamp and started fighting her he recognized that he was losing the battle so from her own place he grabbed an axe and killed her. Once again the city of Herot was peaceful and Beowulf had another victory and showed that he was a true hero.



Later on Beowulf did another thing that made him honored. He was told to go with a few of his men to slay the dragon and take his treasure and he went. When Beowulf and his few men started fighting the dragon he saw that it was a tough fight and most of his soldiers had left him alone with only one helper. That was Wiglaf. Together they fought and killed the dragon. They returned to the city with all the treasure and gave it to all the poor people. That is a true hero. After fighting the dragon Beowulf was injured badly. He knew that the injury was fatal and that he was going to die.



His last few words were to burn his body into ashes and to be thrown into the ocean where they would built a mound of land and name it after his name. In those days burning someone into ashes was a huge honor to that person. That shows that Beowulf really was honored, respected, and seen as a true hero by his people. That show a true hero's journey.