Nathan Mar Marsh HFWL 6th hour 11/06/13 Odyssey Essay The Journey of Odysseus The epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer portrays the journey of Odysseus, the son of Laertes and the king of Ithaca, in his journey home from the war against the Trojans. Gods and goddesses, such as Circe, Athena, and Zeus, take their turns to mold his journey and testing his judgment to make decisions to get home; however, they also reveal the meaning of the theme that fate controls the decisions that we make. Circe, an enchantress and goddess, uses her powers to keep Odysseus on her island. Her role as an enchantress lures Odysseus’ scouting sailors to the enchanted food on her island. As a result, they turned into “a pigsty-/ bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all/ swinish now, though minds were still unchanged” feasting off her enchanted food (Book X, ll.
And in addition to the issue of heating and cooling, they had no heaters, so all of the workers were freezing in the winter. To continue with the list of detrimental things, health and safety were huge factors that were completely ignored. The textile workers in particular had to work in an environment where they had to breathe in fiber and dust all day long, for hours on end. And unfortunately, for many of the workers, this led to lung cancer. With the safety issue, they had poor lighting in the buildings and lack of safety devices on the machines, and as a result there were many hand and arm injuries that went as far as completely crushing the bone.
Life in poverty is hard enough without having to worry about a civil war in your country, let alone around the corner from your village. And also having to flee from town to town in search for safety, leaves him in charge of finding ways to survive by any means necessary. “Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to.” (Beah Chapter 4, p. 29 His mental state of mind becomes a major internal conflict and also is a product of all the environmental conflicts that he is put through. His internal conflicts include not being able to go back home, not knowing what happened to his family, if the
His mental and intellectual health is also affected because he now has no contact with anything but the wilderness and needs to change his mindset on how to find food and how to survive. The last main health dimension is social health, which is affected greatly because he is alone and has no contact with any other humans. He does not like the way his health is deteriorating by the lack of food and exposure to the elements. He is frightened and is physically weakened. On page 6, during a dream he mentally moved away from the woods, “he started to think in terms of the city again”.
The Wright home symbolizes the isolated and dreadful place where Mrs. Wright was forced to live. A majority of the story takes place in the home. Sparsely decorated and in need of updating, the house was an uninviting and lonely place. “I could've come," retorted Mrs. Hale shortly. "I stayed away because it weren't cheerful--and that's why I ought to have come.
Markandaya argues that fear is overpowering on Rukmani’s family. “But in us there was nothing left –no joy, no call for joy. It had come too late.”(pg.77) In this quote, there is a drought that ruined the land therefore there will be no food to feed the family. Fear is overpowering in this statement because Rukami fears her family is going to starve without the land. Her family is livings life where they cannot control what could happen to them because they don’t have money to fix these problems nor do they have the power to stop them.
All the characters suffer with unhappiness in their lives because none of them can escape the misery of being on their own. While starting the novel we are told by George ‘Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.’ By this George means if they didn’t have each other, than he and Lennie would be all alone. While the novel continues to the first introduction of the ranch, everyone seems lonely. Crooks experiences the most isolation because the society is extremely racist. He
They are sick of the mounting pressures put upon them; sick of working long hours for little pay, sick of obeying the law when the law is nowhere to be seen for them when they may need it the most. Yet, step outside the barriers of society and one is looked upon as strange, as someone not to be trusted and looked upon with suspicion. Those who are on the fringes of society, those who live by their own rules and regulations, need no government to govern them. They are their own law, and so their minds are free to discover other things. Indeed, they receive their education by experiencing life.
The poverty in Annawadi is inescapable and overly consuming. It influences every single part of the slum’s peoples’ lives and their stories. There is no running water, indoor plumbing, relief services, or cleaning services. Resources are scarce and hope is all that its people have to hold onto. Boo writes, “What you don't want is always going to be with you.
These women are both heading for disaster; they let these men treat them as they see fit and do not take Linda and Ophelia’s feelings into consideration. Linda is weak and dependent in the sense that she always wants or needs Willy around. She wants him to quit the travelling portion of his job and work in the city, “but your sixty years old, they can’t expect you to keep travelling every week”, (Act One, pg. 14), although she puts it across as she does not want him going because of his age deep down she really just cannot be on her own. Linda may come across as a strong woman who has her head on her shoulders but she is weak and needs to have someone, even if they treat her as poorly as Willy did.