Iclamped my palms to my ears and stretched up my lips and shrieked again: a stab at truth, a snatch at apocalyptic glee. then i ran on all fours, chest pounding, to the smoky mere.

what does the author use in this excerpt to develop grendel’s character?

The creature's actions.

Explanation:

In the epic "Beowulf", the character of Grendel is shown as a monster, exiled away from human habitations, to live alone in the swamps. His hatred for the humans, the Danes, stem from his initial exile and ostracizing.

From the above excerpt, the author uses the creature's actions to show how Grendel will look like, and to further develop his character. Using the first person point of view, the author John Gardner gave us the physical description of how Grendel looks like, his movements and actions which can provide a better imagination on our part to assume how he will look like.

what is the question ?

for this case, we must find the number of deaths per day of the year 2015, in automobile accidents, knowing that 32,400 people died.

knowing that the year 2015 had 365 days we have the following division:

where "x" represents the number of deaths per day.

rounding off we have:

approximately, 89 people per day died in 2015

answer:

89 people per day