Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Gladiator, by David Franzoni; fiction, pgs. 105- 110

In this section of the book, Marcus, the main character of the book, has been waiting in the cages of the arena, While the representatives of Praetorian territory, and its senators are discussing what they should do to attract more people to the coliseum. Now that they have Marcus, the previous commander, and 2nd hand leader of one of the Roman bases protecting the city of Rome captured, they now have the ability to do that. They were all fighting about how to improve the entertainment of the fights. Commodus was the guy who was supposedly Marcus's friend, but turned him in to the Praetorian officers instead. He is also now the main senate for Rome. During the most recent meeting, they talked about how to attract more people to the stadium. It also states that the Commodus's lieutenants met with the key senators of Rome, and reaffirmed their action in coming missions, it does not talk about the missions, that's just what it says.
I think that this whole paragraph is just starting the real action. It really doesn't explain much. It does give good details on how powerful their army is, that I didn't explain, such as: THE MOST POWERFUL LEGIONARY ARMY IN THE WORLD!, obviously. I don't think that the arena thing is going to work out for Praetorians, I'm guessing that Maximus is going to stir up chaos, or something, but I know he doesn't want to escape, even though he wants his family back. The reason I say that is because Juba, his teammate, and pretty much friend saved him on the way to enemy territory inside of the caravan. He had a big slash on his arm, and there were maggots on his arm. he was going to wipe them off, but Juba stopped him, and that's what saved him, because the maggots were taking out the infection from the slash of a sword. that's what cut his arm. Anyways, since there's not much more to reflect on, I will just end there, and one more thing, I think Maximus is AWESOME!
Pristinely:(pg. 105) New, not messed up, and nearly untouched.
Regal:(pg. 105) simply means; of royalty.

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