The Hero of Troy

In today's modern times we hear the word hero all of the time Nearly every day on television people talk of athletes and celebrities as being heroes, but actually , they are not heroes at all. Possibly role models, but for the most part, not in heroic qualities a true hero is a man that distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility strength , a person that would put his self in danger to serve his god and country ,a person may even be a hero if he helped people by just giving them strength to go in through life difficulties , someone who would give up his life so another would have a peaceful life , that is what I call a hero , and through the movie we saw allot of courageous powerful warriors that were dying in the sake of their country like ; Paris , Patroclus. Achilles, Odysseus, these are the people that we would really call heroes. but among these heroic people there is one particular one that would rise above them all, and that would be ‘hector’’ the oldest son of’’ priam ‘’ husband of Andromache, and father of Astyanax, and he is the hero of troy because ; hector led the Trojan through the war , sacrificed his life for the sake of troy even defended his brother and stood with him while he was the one that started the war , hector faced and fought with the most power full warrior in Greek ,never gave up on his country and people and he was loyal to them .

When Hectors and his brother went to visit Sparta to negotiate peace between Sparta and troy , Paris had seen Helen and he was enchanted by her beauty and fell in love with her , not only Paris who were in love with her, Helen had also admired him as well , when it was time to departed from Sparta , Paris convinced Helen to come back with him to troy and they would live there together , Helen agreed and went back with him , hector did not know about this but when his brother told him at first hector wanted to go back and return her but then he saw how they were in love with each other , he