Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

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You know when you go on a family trip somewhere and you're so excited that you get to fly there even though you have to get to the airport really early but have fun on the way to your terminal and area thing then you're stuck in the airport for two hours just to find out you're in the wrong terminal because either the person holding the tickets read it wrong or the people just decided to change the area the plane will land in (it’s usually the first one). So you have to run to the other side and still have to wait, like half an hour for the plane to get there only for the plane to be late, or deiced, or it's just not working right. Trust me it’s even worse when you're stuck on the plane after it’s landed because something was wrong with it …show more content…
“No more seafaring homeword for these, no sweat day of return; the god had turned his face from them.”(lines 953-955)This shows the tragedy that befell Odysseus along his journey where he lost man after man to an obstacle along the way to where he is now and had the complete his journey without his men.His main goal might have to return home to his family but he also wanted his men to return with him but the Prophet Tiresias had said in his prophecy that along the way Odysseus would lose his men,and though he did lose all his men he had tried not to.The Odyssey also teaches that many terrible things can happen on a journey but to keep hope of reaching your destination.After facing off with the sirens, Odysseus and his men encounter Scylla and Charybdis.This is where they must make it in between The monster Scylla and the Whirlpool Charybdis while trying to stay alive.”have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is it now, then when the Cyclops peened us in his cave?”(lines 766-768).After Odysseus told his men this in order for them to go through the straight he brings up the point that they had in fact been through worse things like the Cyclops and should have learned from those situations on how to handle this new threat.This helps motivate his men to continue through the pass and ends up with six men dead.Even though he lost his men Odysseus and continued on.This is

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