Odysseus And Krakauer Analysis

Both Odysseus and Krakauer experience guilt in both stories. Have you ever felt guilty for something that you did wrong or think wasn’t going right? Some point in your life I bet you have felt guilt. They both feel guilty for something they have done in their lives that they will never forget. They want to try and resolve their guilt, but for sure, they will both never be the same again. Both Krakauer and Odysseus face guilt on their Journeys to Mount Everest and to Aeolia. In some instances, both men experience guilt and cope with their guilt in similar ways, but in other ways, each men respond differently. Odysseus for example got trapped on Ogygia with Calypso. He was trapped there for 5 years seduced by Calypso, but felt guilty because he had to wait to go home to Penelope and felt like he wasn’t being loyal to her. Krakauer felt guilty because he felt responsible for Andy Harris’ death. …show more content…
Odysseus held information from his men when he gets the bag of wind from Polyphemus, but doesn’t tell his men what’s inside the bag. The men think it’s either treasure, gold, food, anything and wants to know what’s inside of the bag, but when the men open the bag, the found out that there was wind inside and the blew the ship into a different direction. Odysseus found out and was furious with the men. It drags them farther and farther away from home. Krakauer was holding information away from Rob Hall that his clients were all dead. He wanted to give Rob Hall some confidence that he could keep