He was allowed to live there, but he was ignored by his friends, considered as low as a helot in rank, and his daughters were refused husbands. The other man to survive the battle was a messenger sent by Leonidas to Thessaly - he was unable to endure the shame and hanged
he went home but found that the beggars were there keeping his wife in until they killed her husband. So he decides to pretend he is one of the suiters and competes to be with the wife. His wife would only pick the man who can do the thing her husband can do. She had no idea it was her husband in the running , neither did the suitors that is proven when they say “you nosing rat / making your pitch to everyone”(line 1213-1214). He was just one of the others.
In fact, some of the monsters in the story knew he was an epic hero, such as Circe in Book 10 (Line 56) “ ‘ What champion, of what country, can you be?’”, Odysseus finally justify himself to Poseidon, who finally let him return to home. As soon as he got home, he needed to conquer one last challenge. In order to see his wife, Penelope again, he had to kill the army of suitors that were waiting at his front door for Penelope’s hand in marriage. He killed each and every single one of the men. For this reason, Odysseus have had proven himself to be an epic
* The next day, young Phaeacian noble men conduct him home by ship. * Athena appeared and told him that: * The suitors believed that Odysseus is dead. * Sought the hand of his wife, overran his palace. * Enjoyed themselves at Penelope’s expense. * Plotted to murder Telemachus before he inherited his father’s lands.
Odysseus was widely known to the ancient Greeks for helping defeat Troy with his idea of the Trojan horse to get King Menelaus’ wife, Helen, back from Paris, the prince of Troy. It took Odysseus ten years to win the war and ten years to reach his homeland, Ithaca, and return to his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. During these twenty years, Odysseus has chosen to make many bad decisions and choices yet he was blessed by the gods and helped by his mentor Athena and safely reached Ithaca but lost all his comrades and friends. Odysseus reached Ithaca to find his home occupied by ruthless, arrogant suitors! Aggravated, Odysseus carefully planned a trap with the help of two loyal men and killed all the suitors.
He spent many years fighting there and finally defeated them with the “wooden horse.” After the war, he set sail to return to his island, Ithica. While trying to find their way home they came across an island where Posiedon’s Cyclops sons lived. Odysseus blinded one of his Cyclops, Polyphemus. Posiedon was very mad and set many trials for Odysseus. Odysseus and his men fought the waves, harsh days, and long nights for many months.
This is when the Hero meets the Guardian. Most of the time the Guardian is dangerous and sent to test the Hero and see if he/she will keep going until they finish the quest. To do this the Hero has to defeat the Guardian in order to keep going (pg. 64-73). Lastly, is “The Belly of the Whale” where the Hero is swallowed, either physically or mentally.
Odysseus blinded him and later escaped. He then sails to Aeolia where the king lives. He gives them a gift so they can sail to Ithaca. This is when they meet Circe. She tries to keep Odysseus there, but ends up sending him to land of dead.
And then they got split into tribes and one was Jack’s tribe and the other was Ralph’s. And everything changed from then on people started to die and nobody cared or tried to solve the problem. Ralph wants to get rescued and get off the island but the others just want to stay. They don’t have any teamwork, in the beginning of the book they at least had some kind of teamwork going on. Their leadership also begins to fall apart when they discover the “beast”.
To prevent a future problem. After the drunk giant passed out the men heat up a wooden and stab it into the eye of the giant who begins to scream in pain. When the courious neighbors came to see what was going on only thing they here is “Nobody`s killing me”. Disguising there self with the sheep they slightly made it out the cave. The Cyclops would let the sheep out every morning and they left with them.