There is always a reason behind every journey; these reasons motivate adventurer to complete their journey. Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey and Salak’s travel memoir The Cruelest Journey, share what drives adventurers to complete their journey. In Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey the protagonist is wandering for years in search of home, since he was blown of coarse. Similarly, in Salak’s memoir, the explorer is tying to set a new record, while learning something new about herself. Adventurers plan their journey to prove themselves, finish the expedition, and to be matchless.
When adventurers are suspected, they clear their misinterpretation by demonstrating themselves in situations. When Salak, the great explorer is told she can’t do something, in return she says that, “Still when a person tells me I can’t do something, I’ll want to do it …show more content…
In the middle of the journey Salak is exhausted but she will not rest until she reaches her target. In the middle of trip salak, the traveller utter, “All I know is that I must keep paddling” (Salak 425). She is worn-out but to reach the line she kept battling herself to cross the mark. Likewise in The Odyssey, Odysseus on the Cyclopes Island is trapped in a cave with a Cyclops. Odysseus keeps thinking how to earn the victory, Odysseus, the fighter shares, “I kept thinking how to win the game” (Homer 381). Odysseus is strong-minded and kept thinking to win. This shows how Odysseus is going outside his boundary to kill this huge monster and accomplish the motive to escape the out of the cave. Moreover, Salak is injured in the storm, this not the reason she is going to stop and then she says, “I paddle straight towards it, ignoring the pain in my body, my raging headache. Salak is absorbing all the pain in the storm, going past her limits putting herself in this situation just to achieve the objective. While going beyond their limits, the achieve something no one has
When adventurers are suspected, they clear their misinterpretation by demonstrating themselves in situations. When Salak, the great explorer is told she can’t do something, in return she says that, “Still when a person tells me I can’t do something, I’ll want to do it …show more content…
In the middle of the journey Salak is exhausted but she will not rest until she reaches her target. In the middle of trip salak, the traveller utter, “All I know is that I must keep paddling” (Salak 425). She is worn-out but to reach the line she kept battling herself to cross the mark. Likewise in The Odyssey, Odysseus on the Cyclopes Island is trapped in a cave with a Cyclops. Odysseus keeps thinking how to earn the victory, Odysseus, the fighter shares, “I kept thinking how to win the game” (Homer 381). Odysseus is strong-minded and kept thinking to win. This shows how Odysseus is going outside his boundary to kill this huge monster and accomplish the motive to escape the out of the cave. Moreover, Salak is injured in the storm, this not the reason she is going to stop and then she says, “I paddle straight towards it, ignoring the pain in my body, my raging headache. Salak is absorbing all the pain in the storm, going past her limits putting herself in this situation just to achieve the objective. While going beyond their limits, the achieve something no one has