Sparta Warrior Speeches

Every day it’s the same. Get up, eat, train, eat, train, sleep. Over and over and over again. I don’t know how I have done it for the last three years. When I wake up, I am hungry. We don't get fed enough so there is no other choice but to steal food. Every day I take a little bit, hoping I don’t get caught. Nobody want’s to be caught because they know what will happen, but everybody continues to do it. People say that being a Spartan warrior is an excellent career in the future but I didn't even want to be here in the first place. You see all the people here getting trained to be fit to “uphold the honor for the future of Sparta” or “produce great children to be the future warriors of Sparta” or whatever other reasons they can come up with …show more content…
In these barracks, everybody knows what to do. Nobody steps out of line or does anything wrong. We know what is expected and how severe the consequences can be. When I turned seven, I was so excited to be here. Now that I have spent three years doing it, I don’t know why I was so excited to come here in the first place. It seemed like everybody was but if you look at them now, you can tell we are all pretty tired of it. When I was born, Mother told me that I had to be looked at by an official. If they did not think I was capable of being a good enough warrior, I was left there to die. I am glad I was not left out there, but right now I wish I was left there to die. It must be easier to be dead than go through what all of us are right now. They call it training but I’m not sure that’s really what it is. I don't even have a pair of shoes. The lawgiver believes that if we harden our feet by not wearing shoes, it would make climbing hills and descending steps easier and less dangerous. He believes that we would become like beautiful gazelles, being more nimble while running and jumping compared to another boy in sandals. To go along with my shoelessness, we have one outfit we wear all