Gladiator, by David Franzoni; fiction, pgs. 120- 130

So, after his battle in the arena him and Juba talked about their families, and how they missed them. All of the sudden, some travelers in the distance showed up, they headed to the barracks, and to Proximo, the guy who captured Maximus, and sold him as a slave. The travelers had guards, and they summoned Maximus to follow him. The guards kept their distance, and lead him to Proximo, inside the directors quarters. Proximo signaled the guards away, and greeted Maximus. He offered honeyed insects, but Maximus just shook his head. In there, Proximo said that Maximus was good but not magnificent. He responded; "You want me to kill, I kill, that's enough, he turned to walk out, until Proximo mentioned Rome, his home. "Rome?", then he described the coliseum, and he described it from a gladiators point of view, Maximus asked," You used to be a gladiator?" "The best!", He responded. He mentioned a wooden sword, and how it resembles freedom, Proximo used to be a slave/gladiator, like Maximus is now. He said that if he wants to win his freedom, he has to win the crowd. Then Maximus says," I'll give them something they've never seen before!
Now it skips to a scene of Maximus's family, there, it plainly mentions that their thinking of Maximus. His son was dreaming about him, and then he woke up to his mother, and they talked a little about them, then she's trying to put him to sleep for the next 4 pages. She gave him something to help him sleep, and he slept.

I think it's going to turn out very bloody in the arena, because of Maximus, the reason why is because he said he'll give them something they've never seen before, so their going to send him to Rome, and their going to put him against someone hard. From there, I think chaos will be unleashed, war will start between Persians, and Romans, and a few main characters will die. Obviously, it's going to get worse before better. Another thing that could happen is that he just earns his freedom, and he leaves to home, finds his family dead, and goes back for revenge, and to save the slaves. Life's tough, and I'm not saying it will, but it could happen in this book. That's what I think might happen in this book. Also, I don't think that Maximus could've done anything else as in options because he's mainly got only one thing on his mind; getting back home to his family. I probably would've done the same thing he did in that situation.

Legitimatizing: simply put; to make legal.