英文读后感-Can Human Determine Their Own Destiny?

费昳琼 上海市松江二中高二年级 阅读书目：特洛伊传说 The Story of Troy （DK英汉对照百科读物）

I have never been to Troy, but David Maule made me feel as if I were standing on the high wall of Troy, watching the fierce war Though the story happened over 3000 years ago in a remote place, I was deeply fascinated by it

Hector was the eldest son of king of Troy, Priam The war started because of the mischief of his brother, Paris, whom he didn’t appreciate It was really a tragedy that such a valiant man died in the duel with another great warrior, Achilles As a famous Chinese parable says, “A life can be as slight as a piece of feather, or as weighty as Mount Tai Achilles was such a typical person He was so crucial because his every appearance in a war encouraged his fellow soldiers and terrified the enemies That’s why his name was memorized long after his death He didn’t want to attend the war because he was happily married and had a lovely son I’m quite sure that the story of the wooden horse is widely known, however, few people know who thought of the brilliant idea, that’s why I admired Odysseus so much because he was the person who got the idea If you want to know how the wooden horse worked, just read the book

The story of the golden apple was such an example Hera, the queen of gods, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, were all involved in the argument for the apple Tempted by Aphrodite’s beauty and promise, Paris handed the apple to her That was the cause of the war So during the war, they helped the Greek alliance army while some other gods, such as Apollo and Aphrodite, guarded Troy

After the duel between those two people, there was a truce between the Greek alliance and Troy Hera pursued her husband ZEUS:“ Now, will you send Athena to make the Troyjans break the peace?”(Page 22) Then with Zeus’s permission, Athena went down to start the war again and finally she brought the Greeks to success However, with the rapid development of science, we have learned that the Greek gods never existed Everything happened due to men’s ambition, love, loyalty or jealousy

God are of less importance than they used to be

I have learnt from the book more than the wonderful story of history, love and war I highly recommend this book to my friends with the same interesteasyzw.com】