Epics

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So this whole week we have been reading a lot of epics. The first one that we read was The Iliad. We didn't really read the full story just part of it and it was really confusing to me. I could hardly understand half of what I was reading because of all the difficult words. I think they should change the words so we can understand it better, but then again we should learn all of the tough words to have a better vocabulary so I see in two different ways. We read the part of where Hektor and Achilles were fighting. The reason that Achilles wanted to fight Hektor was because Hektor killed Achilles nephew or someone in his family. The reason being was that Hektor thought it was Achilles. In the end Achilles killed Hektor. The part of the story that we read had great details about each part. I think we read 3 stories in The Iliad but not quite for sure. Epics are really long poems basically and very hard to read, I think. They've made a movie about The Iliad and its called Troy with Brad Pitt in it. I've never seen it before, but i've seen a clip from it when the greeks gave the trojans the trojan horse and they hid in the horse and came out at night when everyone was sleeping anf killed a lot of people. That scene alone kind of made me want to watch it. We moved on and are starting to read the Aeneid. I havent read much of it so im not sure on what its like but next time I'll maybe blog about it.