Informative Speech On Achilles

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The war is still going on and and I'm worried about my husband. He is a warrior in the battle between the Greeks and Trojans. I'm afraid he is going to be killed because our best soldier Achilles is not in the war. He is such a good soldier because nothing can penetrate his skin. His skin is impenetrable because his mother dipped him the River Styx when he was young and it gave him the power of invulnerability. Achilles is known as a war hero but he is deciding to stay back and not fighting for the Trojans. I need him to go back to war so my husband can return alive to me and our family. He needs to return so he can be father to his children. I would not survive without him. I would be a widow and have no rights because I am female. We would …show more content…
I told him that he should go back to war and fight for the thousands that are already there fighting for our freedom and safety. I said if you go the city of Troy might have a chance even though it was destined to fall. That he should go and fight with his friend Patroclus. If he didn't he would surly die and he would lose his best friend. I also told him if he didn't go to war he would be disliked by everyone one for just watching all those men die and not doing anything. He be called a coward and live a awful live for not going back. But if he went back to war he would be know as a legend. I said yes you might die but you would be remembered and honored for what you have done. He will still have the remembrance of a war hero. I also told him he should make peace with Agamemnon and just rejoin the war. Agamemnon tried to make peace with Achilles with the offer of gifts and riches. Agamemnon even offered one of the seven daughters as a gift. But Achilles refused all of this and still would not go back. I also told him he would stop listening to his mother who is trying to get him from going. I said you your mother needs to understand that thousands will die if you don't go

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