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How does the textual aid like charts,diagrams,help you in presenting your ideas and grasp tge message of the story '' The Gorgon's Head'' in a comprehensive way?
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train journey from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth. On the train he read us the story of Perseus and the slaying of the Gorgon Medusa from a book of children’s stories of Greek myths.
King Acrisius of Argos asked the oracle how long he would live. The oracle declined to give him a number but told him he would be killed by his grandson. King Acrisius, terrified, had his own daughter, Danae, locked in a chamber with neither door nor window.
But Zeus, the king of the gods, saw her through a crack in the wall. He entered the room as a shower of gold. He seduced and impregnated Danae. I am not sure how my father dealt with this part of the story for an eight-year-old. But Danae bears a son, Perseus, and King Acrisius—enraged, terrified—has Danae and the infant Perseus placed in a wooden chest and has the chest thrown into the sea.
But instead of sinking, the chest and two inmates wash up on the shore of the island of Seriphos. A fisherman finds Danae and her son, and in due course Perseus grows into a strong, agile youth.
The king of Seriphos, Polydectes, has heard of the beauty of Danae and wants her as his concubine. But fearing the protective wrath of her son, he sends Perseus on a suicide mission.
Perseus is sent to kill the Gorgon Medusa. The Gorgons are three sisters too terrifying to behold. Their hair is made of living snakes, and to look at them is to turn to stone.
Perseus sets out on his journey and is blessed. He is given wings on his shoes to make him swift. He is given a cloak of invisibility. And he is given a reflective shield, so that instead of having to look at Medusa directly, he can look at her reflection in his shield. He finds the cave where the Gorgons live, and there he slays Medusa.