I will tell you a tale of an age long ago,toward the beginning of Sparta. It will also take place in Sparta. Toward the beginning kingdoms wanted the land Sparta would be built on but none wanted the land so badly as the Achaea kingdom; though other kingdoms wanted the land that the Spartan empire was built on but none would budge with the Achaea kingdom in the way, so it was only a mater of time before war broke out between the two. Though our story isn't all about the war; our story is about a young man that goes by the name lee, lee was about average height, with light blue eyes ,and unruly brown hair. Usually lee talks with his friends or lofts around his house; but today was different the war had gone bad to worse for them and you could …show more content…
see it from the streets, beggars lining the walk ways shops closing down and every on was thinner than what was considered healthy. It had gotten so bad that even his friends, his friends that loves peace and were a bunch of hippies joined the war. The day they were to be shipped off lee spoke to one of his friends. “why are you joining, you are aware of the fact that you'll only live for a few weeks at most right ?” he asked curiosity lining his voice “I know” lance responded in a surprisingly mono tone.
“Than why are you joining; I don't understand why?”curiosity now turned concern. “they shelter and keep there solders well fed”lance said in a dry humor tone “Why would that mater you live like me right?” lee spoke with questioning Lance turned around, face full of fury and yelled “i lost my house months ago;I haven't eaten I two weeks!”YOU DONT UNDERSTAND; i expect you not to understand, you live easy.” He said as he walked away. ‘how dare he think my life is easy, I live in a shack and only eat once a day, how could he have the audacity to assume I life an easy life’ he thought to him, when suddenly he had a devious thought. Later in that same week he had just finished filling out forms needed to join the army. After Lee had filled out the forms he was shaking like a leaf in the wind, regretting having done what he did, so he did what any frightened solder would do that's pray to the god Ares. He looked up to the gods statue on his knees and started praying “Oh great god Ares please guide me in battle and help …show more content…
me” Suddenly he felt the weight on his shoulders disappear.
A day later he was shipped off to the base they had near battle grounds. Currently he and other solders were having a mission briefing each one receiving a job but he didn't hear what was his so ageist his better judgment he asked the Sargent what was his job. “S-s-sir what was my job.” “I told you once do I have to tell you again” “Y-y-yes sir” In a deep gravely voice “Fine, your job is to stay behind and guard the base with your life, do I make my self clear!?” “y-yes sir” Lee responded quite frightfully. “Good” the Sargent said as he walked away leaving Lee to stand by himself. Lee being dreadfully tired and quite shaken up from what transpired, decided to rest the rest of the day away. Suddenly he was awoken by a yell, he shot up out of bed in a cold sweat, he climbed out of bed threw on his armor and walked out of the tent. He looked around and noticed that every one was on guard, “whats going on?” he asked in a timed manor. “ I think were under attack” the solder responded in a battle ready tone
. At those vary words he had started shaking, ‘i should run far away from this place and never look back’ ‘but I should stay in fight I had prayed to the god ares running now would only anger him’ but lee didn't have time to think’ due to the war cries signaling that the enemy was on them. When suddenly he heard the sounds of spears flying through the air. His mind still at conflict he did the thing only a coward like him would do, run he ran for miles and miles and miles until he had nothing to run with with his vision slowly fading he caught of something that looked, dare he say divine. As he slowly but surely cranked his neck upwards he saw something, no someone glaring back and he knew who it was. It was someone who made his blood run cold and the previous weight on his shoulders return ten times as heavy, it was the vary person who took the weight, Ares and all his divine glory. Lee at this point was beyond terrorfide Lee was about to explain his cowardice “oh great lord Ares I -” “SILENCE!” Ares yelled interrupting lee “EVEN WITH MY BLESSING YOU REN AND DISGRACESD IT!” Ares yelled fury evident in his voice. Lee tried to explain himself once again “Ares I had no choice I-they would have killed me!” he said desperately trying to save himself but not in slightest working. “NO YOU HAD A CHOICE AND YOU CHOSE A CHOICE THAT ONLY THE TRUEST OF COWARDS WOULD MAKE AND EVEN IF THEY KILLED YOU A LEAST YOULD DIE WITH HONNOR, I SHOULD END YOU RIGHT NOW” At those words lee curled up in to a ball and did the only thing he could do, beg. “ Please oh please don't end my life” lee said with fear and terror in his voice Ares spoke once more “NO I WONT END YOUR LIFE” Lee starts uncreling himself “oh than-” “INSTED OF KILLING YOU ILL DOOM YOU TO A PITTAFULL EXISTINSE” and with a snap of his fingers lee felt the worst pain someone should anyone feel, he could feel his body , arms,legs and head all start twisting morphing he had just enough stranghth to yell “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME” Still undergoing the transformation. “ LIKE I SAID, DOOMED YOU TO A PITAFULL EXISTINSE FOR AS LONG AS MT.OLYMPOS STANDS” He replies with a smug look on his face. As Lee’s yells of pain eventual turned to squawks of a bird he looked at him self only to realize he was a white feathered creator and yelled but instead of yells they were nothing but squawks.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Print.
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scheme ending in frustration. After Lee had surrendered to the Army of the Potomac, in the second week
There are very few times when a person goes through an experience that changes the way he or she thinks about themselves. Drastic things like war, deaths, and tragic incidents can change a person?s life and shape the way they live. In ?The Man I Killed,? Tim O?Brien describes his life changing event when he killed the Vietnamese soldier crossing his path when he was on duty. The reader learns that O?Brien is endlessly sorry for the poor soldier, whom he thoroughly describes in his mind. It is the first time he had ever killed, and it is known that O?Brien continues to remember the soldier throughout his entire life, making him change the way he thinks about himself as both a soldier and a human being. Mark Fossie realizes that life, especially his relationship with Mary Anne, is not as simple as he expected when Mary Anne takes a soldierly turn in Vietnam and turns out to not be the girl Mark had wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
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...o get the Spartans inside of Eira. The battle was a hard one. Messenians fought desperately women and men throwing tiles, and bricks at the soldiers as they were slaughtered. At the end the Spartans had them defeated. Aristomenes and some of his men managed to break the Spartan lines and he rounded up the women and children and took them to Arcadia. Aristomenes choose 300 Arcadians and 500 Messenians they decided to surprise attack Sparta since most of the Spartan army was away at war. They were ready to attack until they discovered that Aristocrates the king of Arcadia had sent a messenger to warn the Spartans. The King was killed by his own people who threw stones at his head and his corpse was thrown from the city of Arcadia The Messenians moved to Italy where they founded the new city of Messene. The ones who did not leave were known as Helots and the war ended.
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He sometimes went back and thought about if this was really all worth it. If it was worth all the bloodshed and tears. He used to tell people it was, he used to tell his children that they’ll bleed and fight for them, though that was all they seemed to do. They would come back from missions with
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eager for more land. After 20 long years of war the Messenians were forced to