the honorable, greeks, gods and trojans.

Athena is the god of wisdom and a powerful defender in war and is a peacemaker. She is the daughter of Zues. In the story The Iliad she tries to convince Achillies not to fight. She dresses up as Hector's brother to talk to him, she is on Hector's side and protects him. One thing i learned from research was that Zues swallowed Athena's mother, Metis, while she was pregnant with Athena. Athena was born from Zues's forehead, fully armed. In The Iliad Athena does not show honor, but she made sure that Hector died with Honor.

Nestor is the king of Pylos and the oldest and widest Greek leader. He was trying to get peace between Achillies and Agamemnon. In The Iliad Nestor shows that he is powerful and he could take down Agamemnon if he wanted too. One thing i learned from research was that all of Nestor's brothers were murdered by Hercules and he escaped. In The Iliad Nestor shows honor by telling the warriors stories about when he was in the war, to help them fight honorably.

Hector is a Trojan, and Priam was his father. He was worried about dying in the war, he was telling his wife. Achilles killed Hector and brought his body back to the city. He dragged his body all over the city and around his best friend's grave, Protroclus for revenge. Zues protects Hector's body by bribing Achilles with a treasure. I learned from research that many poets described him as the son of god. Hector ties in with Honor because he fought with honor and when the god's got his body back he was buried with honor.

"Behold Hector now-if you ever once rejoiced

to see him striding home, home alive from battle!
He was the greatest joy of Troy and all our people!"

dede the tree man .

Dede, a 35 year old man has warty roots growing from his hands and feet after he cut his knee when he was a teenager. He was let go from his job and was deserted by his wife, now alone and living in poverty Dede is raising his two teenage son's with no doctors around the help with his condition. He has HPV and cannot fight against the virus that is causing his warts to develop. To help make money to support his family he travels around Indonesia as a "circus freak". In January 2007 he had nearly 4 pounds of bark removed and has been given some hope of recovering from this disease.

"That gentle voice! ... herd them rightly" p 113.

Gregor's family describes Gregor's voice as not being human like.

In Metamorphosis Gregor wakes up to being a cockroach. I think he transformed into a cockroach because in his life he's constantly doing the right thing, listening to his family, providing for everyone and never sticking up for himself. I think he's a cockroach because he's weak and needs to do something in order for his life to change, and him transforming may be the right thing for him to do to transform his life.

My example of transformation isn't as extreme as Gregor's but it is bad. How could you live with tree like bark sprouting from your hands and feet? I couldn't. But at least you can tell that he's still human, but with Gregor he's completely a insect. Dede can still eat with his mouth and talk but Gregor has no teeth and cannot eat and many things for him are changing. Only Dede's appearance is changing and there is hope for him to become partially normal again and who knows for Gregor?