book review The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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Engels
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VWO / Gymnasium
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The Song of Achilles
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The power of Love
A review of The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song Of Achilles is Madeline “I will never leave him. It will be this,
Miller’s debut novel, Miller is 44 always, for as long as he will let me.”
years old, she grew up in New York -Patroclus (p95)
City and has been teaching Latin and
Greek at a high school for over After learning that the wife of
sixteen years. She spent ten years Menelaus, Queen Hellen has been
writing The Song Of Achilles, which abducted from the palace in Sparta by
was awarded the orange prize for King Priam’s son, Prince Paris,
fiction 2012 and was New York Achilles decides to join the Greeks in
Times Bestseller. their war against the trojans. Patroclus
joins Achilles to the war, where their
The Song Of Achilles is a romantic love gets tested.
retelling of one of the best and the
most loved stories of the Greek The Song Of Achilles is so beautifully
mythology, following the story of the written. It is a very emotional and
trojan war as told in the Iliad. heartbreaking novel, that lets the
The Song Of Achilles focuses reader burst into tears.
primarily on the life of Patroclus, a
prince that has been exiled to Phthia The Song Of Achilles is told in the
after an act of accidental violence. first person, from the point of view of
There he meets Achilles, the son of Patroclus, which makes the book so
the sea goddess Thetis and Peleus, the much better, because you get to read
King of Phthia. A beautiful and a how Patroclus’s feelings for Achilles
strong bond forms between Patroclus grow with the time.
and Achilles, starting as a friendship Patroclus does not only love Achilles,
and becoming love. but he Knows him in every way
someone can know another, which
“He is half of my soul, as the poets only makes his love deeper.
say.” -Patroclus (p299)
“The way his hair looked in summer
Achilles is fated to become the sun, his face when we ran, his eyes,
greatest warrior of his generation and solemn as an owl at lessons.”
therefore he is sent away to the -Patroclus (p350)
mountains to study with centaur
Chiron. Patroclus doesn’t want to If you are a fan of poetry, mythology
leave Achilles, so he decides to and romance, The Song Of Achilles is
follow him and join him with his not one to miss!
studies.
Written by Nancy Mshalwat ♡
Words 422
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