Read Micah’s inference about Beowulf.
Beowulf does not fear death.
Read the passage from Beowulf.
If Grendel wins, it will be a gruesome day;
he will glut himself on the Geats in the war-hall,
swoop without fear on that flower of manhood
as on others before. Then my face won’t be there
to be covered in death: he will carry me away
as he goes to ground, gorged and bloodied;
he will run gloating with my raw corpse
and feed on it alone, in a cruel frenzy,
fouling his moor-nest. No need then
to lament for long or lay out my body:
if the battle takes me, send back
this breast-webbing that Weland fashioned
and Hrethel gave me, to Lord Hygelac.
Fate goes ever as fate must."
Which sentence or phrase from the passage most likely helped Micah make his inference?
it will be a gruesome day;
Then my face won’t be there to be covered in death:
if the battle takes me, send back this breast-webbing
Fate goes ever as fate must.
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