Role Of Maria Mitchell In The Odyssey

How can three different people from different times and backgrounds be the same? Maria Mitchell, Shane, and Odysseus are all heroes in some way. Maria Mitchell was the first independent woman to find a comment using a telescope. Shane came into a town and had to save the people who help him out. Odysseus went on many adventures to make it home after twenty years and take back his kingdom and wife. They do not seem to share many qualities, but they do. Before you can compare these heroes’ qualities, you need to know about them.

Maria Mitchell believed in women having rights and education in the 1800’s. Women did not have very many rights before around 1850. After this women still did not have very many rights. Not only did Maria Mitchell fight for women’s rights and education, she was the first professional American woman astronomer, as well as a college professor. Maria Mitchell was very strong minded and determined. She wanted more rights for women. Maria was not going to let the fact that she was a woman stop her from doing what she loved. Being brave and intelligent were more qualities Maria showed in her life. She went against most of the social norms in the 1800’s being a scientist and a women rights activist. Maria Mitchell was an amazing woman who wanted the best for everyone. Shane is the main character from the movie Shane. In this movie Shane moves into town where few people live other than the main cattle ranchers. The cattle ranchers are mean men who want the people who moved into the land after them to move somewhere else. Shane stays with one of the families that the cattle ranchers are trying to move out of there. The family includes Joe, Marian, and little joey. Joe has been trying to reason with the ranchers and the other families, but nothing is helping. Shane has to kill some of the cattle ranches, before things get worse. Joe was going to do the killing, but Shane overpowered Joe and kills the bad guys. But has to leave to stay out of trouble with the other people in the town. Throughout the movie Shane shows he is brave and does not give up easily. Shane faced the bad cattle ranchers when he could have been killed many times. Not only did he show up and fight, but he also did not give up when the odds were stacked against him. Also, Shane knew he couldn’t let Joe go and fight the cattle ranchers, he protected the people who cared for him. Shane knew he had to fight the cattle ranchers and he knew he had to protect the people who took him in. Odysseus is from the book the Odyssey. …show more content…
In that story Odysseus goes on a twenty year journey to return home after the trojan war. He goes on various adventures trying to return home after being cursed. Through the Odyssey, Odysseus shows us that he is brave, strong, smart, arrogant, and he can get out of just about every situation. His bravery is shown when he is fighting a cyclops and when he was fighting the sea monster. Odysseus has fought many creatures and men, and still live to make it home. At times, Odysseus was arrogant and angry. The whole reason he could not return home was because he couldn’t handle the cyclop not knowing that it had been Odysseus who defeated him. Going from place to place, getting mixed up in fighting and monsters he knew how to get out of all of those situations. Maria Mitchell and Shane both do not give up easily, are brave, and do what they think is right. Maria did not stop when people gave her a hard time for fighting for women's rights, nor when women typically did not become scientists. Shane did not give up when he was fighting the cattle ranchers in the bar, or when he had to kill the cattle ranchers. Maria believed women had rights as well as men, so she fought for them. Shane knew he had to kill the cattle ranches, even if he did die or have to leave