Odysseus Smart Analysis

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Odysseus is a smart person who gets out of things very easily. Without one using weapons sometimes. Without a plan he thinks of what to do fast. Also the way he gets out of things without a crew and tries to get people on his side. That’s how he is a smart person. Odysseus is smart without having a plan Odysseus thinks of something off his head. Example is “chopped three section pole smoothed it out at bear to the rust and grind that spike in cyclops eye when he was in a deep sleep.” So he came up with a very fast thought without planning it out at all. So Odysseus went with it and pocked out the cyclops eye to make him blind and a way for them to get out fast. That is one way he is smart because he thought of something really fast so he could get all of his crew out. Another reason that he is smart is by thinking about something before he escapes from something. Example is “thinking plug your oars and cover your men’s ears with …show more content…
Example is “fledge light hulls for dipping flights.” So he used fledge light hulls to dip down something so it would be easier do move something down without using no technology. So it helped to make something really hard to do to come down. So instead of thinking before doing or doing something without a plan. Odysseus used stuff around him without weapons around him that is why he is smart. Odysseus is smart in many different ways he is smart and this is how he shows it. One is getting out of things really fast without a plan he just does it by the first thing that comes to mind so he thinks fast. Another is by thinking about something before he does it to see if it works so he has a plan this time but he thinks about it first. One last thing is by the way he uses stuff around him that he has like not weapons he tries to build it or he finds it and uses it. That is how Odysseus is smart in so many

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