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Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head
Posted: Apr 26, 2020 by: A Richards (arichards) on: Mars, Mercury & Jupiter
Week Commencing 20th April 2020
This week the children have been retelling the story of Perseus and Medusa.
Chloe’s retelling
I was in my cave when all of a sudden I froze in silence. I could hear footsteps from far away. From the large mouth of my dark cave I could hear somebody calling my name, I could hear deep breathing and the footsteps getting closer. The snakes on my head started to hiss and slither.
I heard a deep throaty voice from the back of my cave. It sounded like a man. The voice said “I am Perseus.” I giggled and replied “ Have you come to see me?” As I said this as I stepped into the light to see Perseus.
Perseus wouldn't look at me and he wouldn’t look in my eyes instead he used my reflection in his shield.
My hair is so full of snakes they could cover my face because it is full of them., after I did one of my evil laughs it normally scares people away as I think I am scary, I thought he would run straight away because I am so scary but he didn’t.
Perseus continued to look at my reflection in his polished bronze shield. I watched as he lifted his sword. I cried “Look at me. Look at me!” Perseus still kept his eyes on the shield, and stepped further into my cave. Now my reflection was huge, the snake's teeth snarling at him.
“Look at me. Look at me.” I shouted. How could he find me when all he could see was my reflection.
“Yes that's right. Look at me !” I cried. I was now worried he was going to kill me.Perseus swung his sword wildly, with a despairing cry. I felt the sword bite my neck, my blood spouted out, and my body crumbled to the floor.
Hattie’s retell
As I carefully climbed down the slimy rocks I could see the bowed entrance to the cave. It looked dark and gloomy. I hesitated for a moment but then forced myself to continue my daring quest. Every now and then I would see mighty stone soldiers with open mouths and scared faces covered with their hands. This shook my nerves. There were even frightened women and children turned to stone which made me furious and more determined than ever to complete my mission.
As I crept near the cave entrance I clutched my golden shield so tightly my knuckles turned white. As I stepped into the cave the air around me turned icy cold.
I heard breathing and hissing. As I came closer I saw a black figure arising from the wet cave floor.
I forced myself to look away only looking at Medusa from the shimmering reflection in my shield. The scaly, green snakes started to hiss louder but I stepped closer still. I knew I only had one shot at killing the evil Gorgon. Medusa snarled “Look at me, look at me!”
I forced myself to not look at her in the eyes and I swung my sword behind my head. I had one last doubt, I was looking at the reflection of her. How could I make the deadly strike when all I could see was her reflection? But then I put these thoughts to the back of my mind and swung my sword with all my might. As her head rolled onto the floor, the body collapsed onto the cold, hard, wet ground.
I felt elated but drained at what I had achieved.
Harry’s retelling
Today I, Perseus went to visit my mother and step father Polydectes. He is the evil King of the Island Seriphos, today he asked me to undertake the deadly mission to the monster named Medusa. I have been told that Medusa is one of three Gorgon sisters that have snakes on their head as hair that can make you instantly turn to stone, they have brass claws , boar tusks and golden wings, they are supposed to be very evil. I am feeling very brave, a little bit scared but I am going to take down Medusa.
When I left Mothers I decided I needed to see the Gods, when I arrived I saw Athena, Hermes and three nymphs. They offered to help me, Athena gave me a very shiny bronze shield and Hermes gave me a sword, he told me that it could not be bent by the Gorgon sisters. Then the nymphs gave me presents, they gave me winged shoes so that I could fly, a cap that made me invisible and a bag to carry Medusa's head, yuk!
I still didn’t know where the Gorgons were hiding, so after lunch I had to visit the aged ones. The aged ones are three sisters that only had one eye and one tooth between them, I decided to wear my invisible cap so I could snatch the eye away while they were passing it to each other, this worked very well. Once I had the slimy eyeball I demanded that they tell me where Medusa was or I going to squash their eyeball. The sisters decided to tell me where to find her.
So I arrived at Medusa's secret hiding place, it was a very dark cave. As I entered I quickly put on my invisible cap, I had to use the shiny bronze shield so I could use the reflection to see which sister was Medusa. I had to use the shield because if she looked at me she would have turned me to stone, luckily all the sisters were asleep. I quickly spotted Medusa, using the reflection, I swiftly cut off her head and put it straight in the bag. The sisters were so angry I had to use my flying shoes to get away very fast.
When I got home the evil Polydectes was surprised to see me and said “what's in that bag Perseus?” So I showed him what was in the bag and guess what...he turned to stone! So that got rid of him and now I can use Medusa's head to help me in future battles against the evil people.
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