The Rousing of Achilles
There was a lot of plot development here and a lot of the characters seemed to come full circle themselves. It wrapped up some of what happened in Part A and also left a little bit of suspense for what is going to happen in the remaining sections of the story. As for a rewrite, this could be staged in the form of a big game or something in a high school setting to put it in a more modern context. The figure of Patroclus could be a key player that suffers an injury at the expense of his team falling apart or something like that.
Achilles, the main character in this section of Church's
rendition of Homer's Iliad. Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Slaying of Hector
Think about zoning in on a specific character here. The vantage point could also be changed from third person to first person as the character that is going through the experience could be the one to explain what is going on. Such character development and altering could potentially make it more dramatic and meaningful to the piece. I also like how this piece saw what the previous story mentioned come to fruition as Hector was in fact killed after losing his dear friend Patroclus.
The Ransoming of Hector
Not sure where this one could go. There seems to be a lot of tension among the characters in this version. In my own version, I might would consider eliminating some of that somehow. I would still include the tension for a time, but I wouldn't want it to end in a way that it seemed that nothing was really fixed. Hector was in fact ransomed but there were still somethings that I felt were left in loose ends that I would want to tie up in my own rendition of such a story.
Bibliography
A.J. Church's The Iliad, link to Reading Guide B
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