The paper shows that in the novels "Grendel" by John Gardner and "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, the characters are similar
in that they both are on a journey in a bid to understand human
knowledge. The paper
discusses Grendel, the monster's sources of information on human knowledge, the development of this knowledge in the form of understanding concepts such as beauty, as well as the way he uses this knowledge. The paper then discusses the protagonist in "Cat's Cradle" whose main search for knowledge entails writing a book about the day when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.