In the book The Odyssey , Odysseus the main character is sent off to fight in a war. After being in the war for 10 years Odysseus takes a crew and heads home to his wife and only child. The gods keep Odysseus from getting home for another 10 years throwing him off course. Finally, Odysseus gets to an oracle where he is told that he has two ways that he can get home. He can only choose one.
At the end, he was glad that he fulfilled his Personal Legend and that he was going back to Fatima. Some people, like the crystal merchants, have dreams that they want to achieve, but he always imagines that he would be disappointed if there journey would be a waste if it came to the end of something that they are not looking for. Therefore, they might feel discouraged that they didn't try to reach for their dreams and feel sad that they didn't do what they always wanted to do. Surely there are a lot of challenges that will be difficult when you go to chase your dreams, but
Fast-talking, fourteen and fresh from boot-camp, Jack Harold Lucas was bound for glory. He was a fire plug of a kid who wanted to fight so badly, that he lied about his age in order to enlist, stowed away on a troopship to get into the war, and was technically missing when he got his first shot at combat. However, this two-fisted punk managed to become the youngest American in history to receive the Medal of Honor. “On February 20, 1945, while fighting Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, the day after the invasion and a week after his seventeenth birthday, Lucas’ life was changed forever.”(Standring Pg.1) Quick to act under fire, Lucas purposely absorbed the shock of two enemy grenades in order to shield his companions. “By his inspiring action and
Philip Caputo was born in Westchester, an urban community in northern Illinois that constantly had him yearning for an adventure. In 1960, John F. Kennedy was the president and Caputo was ready to ask what he could do for his country. At age twenty-four, he decided to quit the country life and join the marines. He had heard the gallant stories of battles fought in years past and was looking for the same glamorous war stories he could tell of himself. However, the heroic battles and stories he had hoped for turned out to be a figment of his imagination; Vietnam was the ugliest war the United States has ever encountered.
People need connections with others, but these connections are not always what brings them to their absolute highest level of happiness. Chris proceeded to record his personal thoughts in his journal, further proving to the reader the point that personal connections are not essential to happiness. “I now walk out and live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you.” (69), Chris wrote on a card sent to two generous people, Jan and Bob Burres. How briefly this sentence was written and how easily the “good-bye” was said to the couple that took him in and gave him supplies, Chris had displayed that his desire to be on his own was greater than his desire for theirs or anyone’s, friendship.
Allowing his pride to step in, Odysseus fails to acknowledge the help in which he received from Poseidon during the time of the war. This angered Poseidon, god of the sea and causes Odysseus to sail rampaging waters on the way back to his homeland of Ithaca. While sailing with his crew men, Odysseus has yet to surrender himself and apologize. Upon the whole journey he acts on instinct and curiosity doing what he thinks is best, but only runs into obstacles that push him back a step each time. One of these journeys involves a Cyclopes whom Odysseus out smarts, but wasn’t aware of the fact that the Cyclopes, Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon.
The epic journey The Odyssey by, homer is an epic story written a very long time ago. Some time later a movie based off the book The Odyssey this movie has the same feel and only uses homers ideas dose not copy them completely. This movies title is O brother where are thou? The epic The Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus. He had just fought a war in troy and is on his way home to Ithaca, but on the way he runs into the wrong things and soon becomes years before he is able to get home.
Thus Poseidon further delays Odysseus’ trip and makes it just that much harder for him to return to Ithaca. Another great mistake happened on his way home from Aeolia. After receiving the bag of winds from Aeolus, Odysseus and his crew board their ship and are on their way back home. Odysseus does not reveal the contents of the bag to his crew, making them inquisitive. Due to the fact that he has not slept in nine days, he falls asleep on the tenth night because of exhaustion and minding the sail for all of the days.
Odysseus, the epic hero of The Odyssey is faced with many obstacles that could destroy his hopes of ever seeing his family again. In The Odyssey, Odysseus was on a long journey, which exposed his true weaknesses as a leader. For example, it points out that Odysseus tells his men to get on board, but they do not listen because they are too busy partying (815: 30- 31). This shows that Odysseus wasn’t loud and serious
In the memoir, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael is clearly displayed as being an courageous boy and having courage. Courage is the power or quality of dealing with or facing danger, fear, and pain. Ishmael demonstrates all of these qualities when the civil war entered his life at the age of twelve. He fights for his life after having to leave everything behind and losing track of his family when the war broke out. Even after being put in many life or death situations while running from the war without knowing where his next meal was going to come from, where he was going to sleep at, or even if the war was ever going to ever end, Ishmael still kept moving forward until he found his way out of the insane war.