Throughout our history, human nature experiences the loss of a close loved one, although the first time our souls encounter it; an overwhelming feeling of grief empowers our senses and rationality. Brave, Odysseus discovers from his dead mother as he is in denial of the situation, “this is just the way mortals when we die.” I believe Odysseus, feels guilt from his mother’s death because he is not able to return home soon. There is nothing that one can or will change the actual state of the death, because their bodies, “sinews no longer bind the flesh and bones together- the fire in all its fury burns the body down to ashes once life slips from the white bones, and the spirit, rustling, flitters away.” Odysseus learn the harsh truth by first
