Persephone Persuasive Speech

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Hades,
Hello Hades. I’m writing to you to tell you why Persephone shouldn’t have to stay in the underworld for six months. “Why should Persephone get to decide what she gets to do?” you ask. Well she is your wife, don’t you want her to be happy?
One reason Persephone shouldn’t have to stay in the underworld for six months is because she misses her mom, and her mom misses her. While Persephone is gone, Demeter kills all the plants on Earth and makes everything cold and bare because she is sad Persephone is gone and she misses her. While in the underworld for the first time, Persephone only ate six pomegranate seeds, it’s not like she ate an entire cow! It’s not her fault she ate those seeds, she didn’t know that it would make her have to stay

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