Odysseus: A Good Role Model

Odysseus was a great person back in his time. Odysseus tried to help people and was humble the whole time about it. Even when plans backfired and all his crew died on the way home from the ten years war, he still didn’t put his head down. He was a great influence back in his time, but now with all different laws would he still be an influence today. Would Odysseus be a role model to teens everywhere just like how he was considered a God in his time. Odysseus is a good role model because he defends his crew and he lies to get them out of things. Odysseus would get his crew when they needed help out of sticky situations. An example of this is when the lotus people tried to manipulate his crew to eat the flower and Odysseus makes sure …show more content…
Odysseus was always making the decisions and would not let others make the decision. Odysseus make choices that were bad and that hurt his team. Odysseus also lied or did not say the full truth and an example of this is not telling the crew that they will probably die. Odysseus also killed people often. That is how Odysseus was a bad role model. In the world now we could use a hero like Odysseus. Odysseus was back in the day was not afraid of anything, even death. Today people are way too overly sensitive about everything people do and say. We need a war hero like Odysseus. One of the downsides would be that he would want to be a dictator. Odysseus is to controlling and he needs to lighten up. That is why Odysseus is needed today. Odysseus is a great person and a well rounded person he just has some flaws. Nobody is perfect he is more of a role model than a bad person. Odysseus is who everybody should look up to and try to be like. We should not look up and try to be like our presidents, we should strive to be like Odysseus. Odysseus is a person who cares. That is why Odysseus is a great role model for our