Odysseus Life Lesson Analysis

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Odysseus has learn a valuable life lesson from the adventure of the odyssey. Odysseus learned to always know what you're getting into. Odysseus knows what he’s getting into, when “odysseus’s arrow hits [the sutor] just under his chin and punched the feathers through his throat” (955).” secondly time when Odysseus shows that he knows what he is knows what he is getting into is when he “[listened] with care, and the god will arm his mind” (925). I have listened to someone when I was going into an unfamiliar place. This is how Odysseus shows that he almost knows what he is getting

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