Siren

Summary Love always finds a way, no matter the circumstances. Kahlen, a strict rule follower and siren, goes against the rules of the Ocean unintentionally by falling in love with a human. Throughout the story, she continues to have troubles with understanding what her heart is telling her to do. In the end she discovers that taking a risk for the right reason and for the right person is worth it in the end. Kahlen who is a quiet, goody-two-shoes is a character that can easily be connected to.…

In the story of Odysseus by Homer and Margaret Atwood's poem, they both introduce different outputs of the Sirens. Although both texts open the idea of what occurred and the message behind it, the excerpt leans on detailed explanations while the song introduces the actual meaning. Through the use of point of view, the reader is able to accommodate and visualize what is occurring. In the excerpt from Homer, Odysseus speaks on behalf of his experience. The excerpt readers, "...I stopped the…

Homer depicts Sirens as creatures who use their gifts to their advantage to show how women are quite manipulative and don’t do many actions for the better interest of others. While sailing back home, Odysseus and his crewman know of the Sirens but only Odysseus can hear “their ravishing voices out across the air/ and the heart inside me [Odysseus] throbbed to listen longer.” (12:208-209). the ravishing voice of the Sirens is a technique to mask the terror that is beyond…

Greek’s notion of fear in women’s beauty and of the prevailing power of men over women. Throughout the plot female characters, namely Penelope, Circe, and the Sirens, are portrayed as dangers that men overcome and devices that emphasize men’s strength. In the Odyssey, beautiful women bring danger to men with their seductive powers. The Sirens, with their alluring voices, try to lure Odysseus and his men away from their journey (190) and toward their deaths. When Odysseus lands on Circe’s island,…

The Odyssey is a story about a hero’s epic journey throughout the world. First, Odysseus has to outwit different characters that want to end his journey, he must remain in control of his group by keeping them safe, that’s what makes his the hero of this story. Second, he and his men are faced with a lot of different obstacles that they must overcome so that they can complete their journey and make it home to their families. Last, he has to protect his own family from different people. If the…

“You” and “unique” creates a sense of flattery, making it seem as though the siren is opening up and getting more comfortable with the reader. Consequently, the speaker of the poem, or the siren, made the audience feel special and needed. This, in turn, provoked the audience to become too engaged with feeling vital and dominant that he or she did not realize that the siren was actually being deceitful. Thus, the audience fell into the siren’s trap, similarly to the men that…

He does so by doing things such as what he did upon crossing the sirens. To effectively traverse the sirens, Odysseus must be able to prevent any of the crew from hearing the song of the sirens. To accomplish the mission at hand, Odysseus “‘...carved a massive cake of beeswax into bits… and laid it thick upon their ears.’” At this point, an indicator is necessary to establish at…

the other male characters; Athena sways Telemachus to find his father and the Sirens use their voices to compel men to come to the island. The women that Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca all have been prominent in his delayed return home. The female characters in The Odyssey by Homer, mortal and immortal, are portrayed as powerful. The goddess Athena is a very persuasive female figure.…

Coffee” off of its logo. This indicates their belief that the power of the brand can rest on the logo alone. In the beginning, their logo was an image of a “twin-tailed siren” which represented the psychological relation between the passion for fresh roasted coffee, spices, tea and the mythological enchanting character. The Starbucks siren was topless and had a fully visible double fish tail. The material of the logo resembled a brown woodcut with its very visual texture and stated “Starbucks…

Odysseus and Everett have one common goal. They desire to go home to their families and make sure everything is right again. That is the only purpose of the journey and these two are willing to go through several kinds of problems. The only reason Odysseus goes away from his family is that he was needed in the Trojan War. Everett gets caught for studying law without a license and ends up in jail. Both Odysseus and Everett hear the same news that their families are going to forget them and so…