The Poseidon Adventure

realize that persistence is key if we want to achieve anything, no matter how big or small. Odysseus endures many challenges on his quest back to Ithaca. First, after being released from Calypso’s 7 year imprisonment and immediately shipwrecked by Poseidon, he is cast, “naked and near death, ashore on the…

"The Odyssey" is an epic poem by Homer, in which the story is focused mainly on the trails the main character Odysseus goes through on his voyage home throughout a ten year span of time. In "The Odyssey", the readers come across six different characteristics, which supports the statement that confirms it is an epic poem. Odysseus has man traits defining him as a Homeric leader, those characteristics are: courage, strength, a thirst for glory, the self-assurance in his authority, and nobility.…

The Odyssey represented a cunning hero, named Odysseus, King of Ithaca. This work of literature highlighted the tantalizing journey he and his man were forced to make fueled by the Trojan War coupled with the Fall of Troy. Odysseus and his men were antagonized by an innumerable amount of hindrances and misfortunes in their ten year journey back to Ithaca. Critics emphasize that although Homeric characters are generally static. Odysseus and his son are fairly different. “Odysseus’s love of…

My favorite constellation is Orion. I feel that way, because, I find it one of the most interesting stories in Greek Mythology. It is located on the celestial equator, and is one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky. Once upon a time, there was a great hunter, named Orion. He was the son of Posioden and could walk on water, because of that. One day, he walked to the island of Chios. He became drunk and, in that state Merope, daughter of the ruler. In his anger, the ruler…

Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief,written by Rick Riordan, is about greek gods who are angry at a demi-god named Percy Jackson because they think he stole zeus' lightening bolt. Percy needs to find Zues' Master lightning bolt until the summer, June 21 at midnight. There are a couple of settings in the book, for example, different boarding schools, a hill where a mythological beast called Minotar chased Percy at Camp Half-Blood, and in Las Vegas at the Lotus flower…

2.3.2 Mythological creatures in literary works Cannibals appear in different forms in literary works. Appointed in classics like Homers The Odyssey 9 and the Brothers Grimm Hansel and Gretel, the human cannibalistic element is concealed skillfully by the authors with exchanging the human figure for a mythological creature. Frequently the literary executor of cannibalism resembles real issues that the authors faced during their lifetimes in their society. The Odyssey tells the story of the king…

The Outcome of Disguise The theme of disguise in Homer’s The Odyssey is very effective in giving the story a more compelling vibe that draws in readers. This theme of disguise can relate to how revelation works as a form of backfire, how disguise builds up suspense and tension into the story and how the use of disguise is used to help convey a false identity all through the character of Odysseus. There are times in which the themes of disguise and revelation display Odysseus as not being the…

In the original tale of The Odyssey, through the poem, Poseidon is indignant when regarding Odysseus as he had blinded his son, a cyclops named Polyphemus. However in the film conversion of The Odyssey, the god Poseidon aids Odysseus in convincing the Trojans to take the offering (a wooden horse filled with Greek soldiers) into their walls of Troy. He does so by ordering his sea monster…

around a boy namely Percy Jackson who is a Demigod, meaning one parent is a mortal (human) and one is a God, in thi case Poseidon - The God of Sea. His life has never been easy with a disgusting, step-father like Gabe and difficulty in studies with his Dexylsia is difficult enough when he learns that he is the son of a God! Not just any God but the son of one of the Big Three – Poseidon. Not only does he get to realize his true identity, he is also accused of stealing and is the only one who…

In 2013, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel made you believe a man could fly. Now, Justin Lin’s Fast And Furious 5 will make you believe a bus can roll without injuring anyone inside, that a man can be punched through a solid brick wall and still come out the other side unscathed, and that it is possible to keep up with a train in only a muscle car. The film has absolutely no concern for realism, but then again, anyone who has watched the previous four crazy, action-filled films know that the franchise…