Odysseus: A True Hero

A true hero is somebody with courage or ability, he or she is admired for his or her brave deeds and noble qualities. As a reader, if you are reading the Odyssey then you will read about a character Odysseus. Reading the Odyssey you have to know what type of person Odysseus is. The reader has to determine whether Odysseus is a hero or a bad person. Odysseus is a hero because he disguised himself as a beggar to see how the suitors were treating his land and his wife, Penelope and he came home, traveling through horrible conditions, to be with his family once again, and to meet his son him and Penelope had before he went to the Trojan War.

In The Odyssey Odysseus disguised himself as a beggar to see how the suitors behave and treat his land, house, and family. Odysseus doesn’t tell anybody he has returned home, all though the nurse recognizes him from a scar on his leg. Odysseus is impressed with how his son, Telemachus, treats beggars. Telemachus said to Eumaeus, “Take this to the stranger, and tell him to go around and beg from the suitors. A beggar must not be shamefaced.” One of the suitors, Irus, disappoints Odysseus with how he behaves and treats the beggars and makes Odysseus wonder how he treats his family or anybody that may do something wrong or just somebody Irus doesn’t like. Irus cried, “Be off, old man, from the doorway, or you shall …show more content…
Odysseus was home sick he could have stayed with Calypso and married her, but he didn’t. Instead he continued his journey back to Ithaca to reunite with Penelope and meet Telemachus. Odysseus’s men did die, but when they were trapped in the cave with the Cyclops he wasn’t going to just let the monster eat them and kill them or do anything to them. Odysseus saved the ones he could to help them get back home as well. Odysseus didn’t just want himself to get back home but for his men