Imagine leaving your home to fight in the war, and then having to go on a long journey to return back home. Imagine that you are being welcomed by strangers in many different places and environments. Imagine that you have to experience hunger and fear while trying to reach a destination. Odysseus and Inman are both very smart individuals who go on a journey to return back home. They both have a destination and approach it with confidence. They are helped and sheltered by people on the way, while other people want to hurt them. They are both inspired to return home by their families love and they face many obstacles and struggles to get home.
Odysseus and Inman's destination is home, which they both left to go to war. They left everything …show more content…
They meet many people and killed as well. Odysseus killed the suitors that have been waiting outside Penelope's house to marry her. The suitors want to marry Penelope since they think Odysseus is dead. They have been waiting outside her house for many years, eating all of his food and using his things. He kills them with a bow and arrow when Penelope finally announced she was choosing a new husband. She would marry whoever could strike an arrow through twelve axes. Odysseus is the only person who could do it, so he did and killed all the suitors afterwards. Odysseus also watched all of his men who accompanied him on his journey die. Inman, on the other hand, kills Junior, his "bestfriend" who, according to Inman, feeds human flesh to his family. Inman also watched his friend, Veasay, die. Veasay was a preacher and Inman discovered him trying to kill his pregnant lover. They also arrive in many different places and environments. Some places Odysseus goes to is the Cyclop’s Island, Circe’s Island, The Lotus Eaters, and Calypso’s Island. In The Cyclop’s Island, the Cyclops, also named Polyphemus, eats many of Odysseus’s men, and has them trapped in a cave. They escape by blinding him. In Circe’s Island, Circe turns Odysseus’s men into pigs. In The Lotus Eaters, his men eat the Lotus Eater plant and they loose complete interest in going back home. Calypso then keeps Odysseus in her Island until Zeus sends Hermes to
Odysseus and Inman's destination is home, which they both left to go to war. They left everything …show more content…
They meet many people and killed as well. Odysseus killed the suitors that have been waiting outside Penelope's house to marry her. The suitors want to marry Penelope since they think Odysseus is dead. They have been waiting outside her house for many years, eating all of his food and using his things. He kills them with a bow and arrow when Penelope finally announced she was choosing a new husband. She would marry whoever could strike an arrow through twelve axes. Odysseus is the only person who could do it, so he did and killed all the suitors afterwards. Odysseus also watched all of his men who accompanied him on his journey die. Inman, on the other hand, kills Junior, his "bestfriend" who, according to Inman, feeds human flesh to his family. Inman also watched his friend, Veasay, die. Veasay was a preacher and Inman discovered him trying to kill his pregnant lover. They also arrive in many different places and environments. Some places Odysseus goes to is the Cyclop’s Island, Circe’s Island, The Lotus Eaters, and Calypso’s Island. In The Cyclop’s Island, the Cyclops, also named Polyphemus, eats many of Odysseus’s men, and has them trapped in a cave. They escape by blinding him. In Circe’s Island, Circe turns Odysseus’s men into pigs. In The Lotus Eaters, his men eat the Lotus Eater plant and they loose complete interest in going back home. Calypso then keeps Odysseus in her Island until Zeus sends Hermes to