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Life Of Pi And Beowulf Comparison

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Long and boring, this essay is going to be impossible to read without closing your eyes. The dinner had five guests and they were The Knight out of The Canterbury Tales, Pi out of the Life of Pi, Lady Macbeth out of Macbeth, Finny out of A separate peace, and of course the one and only Beowulf. They all had a three course meal for them today and the appetizers are Asparagus Cauliflower wrapped in a crunchy wheat rice ball. The main course is either a BBQ Glazed meatloaf or a 22 oz t-bone steak. Topped of with a mouth watering Nutella Drizzled cheesecake. Beowulf had both meals and was still hungry so he was very angry. Everyone else loved their meals. While they were eating multiple controversial topics came up during it and it was not pretty. …show more content…

Pi simply answered ¨I like to explore different religions and learn about all of them¨. That got Lady Macbeth and the Knight very angry and they argued over how you can only believe in one religion and only practice one. Finny sat in the back trying to please everyone saying ¨its ok guys it's not that big of a deal¨. He shouldn't have said that, everyone turned on Finny at that time yelling at him saying ¨religion doesn't matter huh¨?? Finny then started crying and ran off to a different room to cry. Beowulf followed him in the room and tried helping him but Finny called him a fat ugly monster. Beowulf killed him with no remorse and ate him. An hour goes by and Beowulf walks back out and his stomach is finally satisfied, with blood all over him. Lady Macbeth starts freaking out saying ¨ get the blood of MEEEE¨. No one Pi and The knight didn't see any blood and just left her go to the

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