Grendel Illuminated Texts

This presentation by Jessica Cabrales and Isabel Archiga gets the viewer into the story right away - trees appear and Grendel is captured.  The colors that they use here are very important - Grendel is red -- the forest is green.  The Illuminated Text is both simple and beautiful: "I wanted lies,"  "I wanted hope."  The viewer becomes transported into Grendel's desperate world while harp music plays a sad and soulful song.  An outstanding job in every way.

This Illuminated Text by Alicia Acevedo brilliantly combines common ideas (and text) from Grendel, "Young Goodman Brown" and Plato's "The Cave."  If we are prisoner's, who are our wardens?  This presentation demonstrates the power of reaching across texts to show common ideas and even more importantly the interplay of the text between different works.  As it is done in Power Point, you will need to use Internet Explorer to hear the sound.

There is an emphasis on music in this Illuminated Text by Firas Suqi and Jose Sanchez.  The presentation follows the men hunting the hart - and being breathlessly watched by Grendel.  The authors use a dark forest background and the music begins with thunder and then eases into Native American pan flute.  As Grendel watches and is fascinated, so too are we - not by the hart, but by the talent and ingenuity of these two students.  As this is a Power Point Illuminated Text - be sure to use Internet Explorer and choose Open rather Save when asked by your browser.

A beautiful and evocative presentation by Kevin Yu and Raymond Li, the words appear and disappear - grow and shrink - and every font is carefully chosen to portray the action that is taking place in the scene.  The words, like the stubborn goat, climb higher towards the sky: "I" and "They" fight, all-the-while, Beowulf's boat appears upon the ominous scene.  Besides the wonderful visuals, the authors of this Illuminated Text also do a fantastic job of timing their music to the action.