2010: Odyssey Two

stated, "A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace" ("Ovid" 5). Competition is a necessary part of life and humans have the desire to outrank each other. John Knowles highlights these ideas in A Separate Peace with two of his characters, Gene Forrester and Phineas (Finny). Knowles describes Gene as an introvert and intellectual, whereas Phineas is an extrovert and athletic. Gene places himself in competition with Finny because he recognizes that Finny is at a…

“I'm going to put beeswax in your ears,” I fretfully said. “Why would you put beeswax in our ears, what will that help, Odysseus?” Tom asked concernedly. “You won't be able to hear the sirens, so therefore you won't be coaxed by their voices to jump over. It will keep you on the ship,” I answered. “Well what are you going to do if you aren't going to put wax in your ears?” “I have no other choice but to either stand here, or go to the captain's quarters. My safest choice…

In the epic poem "the Odyssey", Odysseus, the king of Ithica is sailing home from the Trojan war, when he is swept off course by Zeus. Along his way home, he stops at multiple islands for provisions, and encounters a different setting on each one. Odysseus shows his strengths and weaknesses along the way and shows a different one each time they encounter something. The first island Odysseus and his men encounter is home to the Lotus-Eaters. These are people who live on the island and eat lotus…

The Odyssey is a certainly interesting book of short stories, in which there is many, many different tones. The first 3 parts of The Odyssey have interesting tones, and they help the reader understand the concept of the stories. In The Odyssey Part 1, Sailing From Troy, the tone is world-weary, and the word “weathered,” from the quote “Years of adventure weathered under Zeus,” shows how tired and exhausted they are from their long journey. The word “years” also supports this theme, because if…

With beau Rodney, a wisecracking however insightful swindler, and his received sibling, Tonto, a man of gnomic witticisms and some carelessness, Janice is a passionate wreckage since she is caught between two societies. Middle, Barb and the two men force her into coming back to Otter Lake where Janice finds, over the span of a liquor drenched exchange with her sister, her actual bond with her blood-family. When she gets the dream catcher left for her by her late mother, Janice…

Odysseus was an important mythical figure in Greek mythology. He was known as a legendary hero, courageous warrior, and patient minded knight. Odysseus was a “prominent character” in the Trojan war, and the star of the Homer's Epic. If it wasn’t for Odysseus, things may not have been the same as they are today. The Trojan war had an enormous impact on Ancient Greece. After Helen Odysseus’s wife was abducted by Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, the Trojan War began. After some time when…

Odysseus showed throughout his journey that he was a clever, brave, and determined man. With every problem, he had a solution. Every challenge, he faced it head on. And through all the hardships, he never quit. Odysseus was very clever and quick-witted. While he was trying to return to Ithaca, he faced many challenges along the way. Not only did he use his brains to get him out of situations like being stranded on an island, getting trapped in a cyclops’ cave, and being threatened by powerful…

Odysseus, the main character in Homer’s The Odyssey, is not a hero. He shows many non-heroic traits by today’s standards, such as his unending arrogance and need to prove himself, his unfaithfulness to his wife Penelope, and his bloodlust and unjust killings. Throughout the book Odysseus shows these characteristics through his actions. He Insults a Cyclops, he stays with and sleeps with a nymph for seven long years and he slaughters many maids who barely did anything wrong. A hero is humble,…

Michael Pinto Mr. Boody Gram. & Comp. 27 November 2015 The Odyssey Alcinous is the king of a an island called Phaeacia, this is were he got the name King Alcinous from. He came upon the island after his ship ran aground off the coast and he washed ashore. Poseidon the God of the sea had a son named Nausithoüs who married and had Alcinous. As the grandson of a God Alcinous would be identified as a Hero as well. In the story The Odeyssey Alcinoushas the role of taking care of Odysseus when he…

The 20 year journey and all of the obstacles he faced while at sea is the main help that developed the character Odysseus. I mean over a 20 year time period he faced a cyclopes, lotus eaters, Calypso and many more.Some people may say that the goal of getting home is what creates him as a character, I say that all he went through and how he dealt with it is what makes him a great character.When he went to the cyclopes cave and got half his crew stuck with a man eating beast, he used his head and…