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Paris. Paris has the right idea. I only wish my Hector would for once go with his brother's idea. Paris wants to stop fighting, though both Hector and Helen are scolding him for it. Hector visited me not just moments before, and I begged for him to stay here, safe and sound. Does he not want to watch his son grow up? He could be here with me and the rest of his family, watching the war from above, for he will be king soon. He can't be kind if he has a spear through his head!
But he insisted he goes. He insists that Fate has trapped him into fighting, and he cannot let go of her clutches, "...but as for fate, I think that no man yet has escaped it/once it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward..." (Hector, line 88/89). I fear that this may be the last time he will talk to his dear son, and such a beautiful speech he gave to him.
He is my defender though, for that I am grateful. He could be one of those warriors, only looking to fight and to siege. But no. Not my Hector.
Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
majority of the information in my characters blog post.
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