Reflection Six (Books 16-18) 9/27/12

Yesterday was a very eventful day.  Since I last spoke to the distraught soldier on the street, I have received even more information on what happened!  I had to compile many different stories and try to figure out when each event happened and why.  In order to remember everything, I wrote down the information in a chart.  On the top of my chart I listed all of the wounded heroes on each side.  I was surprised to see that the Achaean side, the winning side, had so many wounded heroes and the Trojan side mainly had Hector wounded.  Then I separated the causes and effects of the events that happened in such a short amount of time.  I was amazed that all of these events could have happened.  I drew arrows starting from the cause and going to the effect, so the Trojan and Achaean sides could be kept separate.  There are eleven main events in all.  Three causes from the Trojan side and eight causes from the Achaean side.  The Achaeans are winning!  Finally Achilles accepted his destiny and joined the battle so the Achaeans will have victory!