Connections

Cave and Grendel:

-Grendel is being enlightened, steeping out of the cave, and trying to find a higher power

BNW and Hinduism:

-The Caste system, in which there is a hierarchy of the most enlightened and intelligent at the top, and the "stupidest" lowest echelons of society at the bottom in both societies.

18 w/ a bullet and Hinduism:

-everyone has there place and everyone has a responsibility. A gang member has a duty to protect the gang and serve the gang, which they consider to be their family, which is similar to the Hindu concept of Dharma, which is responsibility to their family.

For all:

Society has created a prison, they are all trapped by the standards of that society. Also, everyone is a prisoner to their own Dharma.

Grendel and 18 w/ a bullet:

Both are struggling with the concept of monster. Both can be defined as monsters, they are both very savage, and do bad things, but they both have their humanistic sides, which reveal characteristics which makes it hard to completely classify them as monsters.

BNW, Nacirema and 18 w/ a bullet:

focus strongly on materialism.