The Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus and his adventure in returning home from the Trojan War after being gone for 20 years. He puts himself in some trouble, but the gods refuse to let him go home without a fight. There is more than meets the eye when it comes to these two stories. The Odyssey and Star Wars follow the same basic cycle. Both adventures show hard and challenging tasks in order to get home, complete an adventure, or save something.
Unlike hospitality and faithfulness that can bring rewards to the people who show it, when Odysseus and his men show hubris towards the gods and their families it almost always has consequences. This can be seen when Odysseus and his escape from Polyphemus’s cave after blinding him and taking some of the Cyclops’s sheep in the process of escaping. While feeling extremely proud about escaping Polyphemus, while sailing away Odysseus shouts to the group of angry Cyclops on shore, “Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye. Laertes' son, whose home's on Ithaca!” (Homer 439-443). Odysseus shouting this is what keeps Odysseus from being able to sail home.
E.M Forester describes a flat character as “The really flat character can be expressed in one sentence…” Royal Tenenbaum’s in one sentence is “he is very deceitful.” He begins the story as being a flat character his entire life, but when forced onto the streets, his manipulative nature turns against him; creating the beginning of his transformation. He is shown as a man who has always put himself before all others, including his family. Royal seems unable to grasp the idea that his irresponsible and selfish lifestyle has driven a wedge between him and his family that cannot be undone by a simple apology. The main goal of Royal however, is not to make amends to his family, but to have a roof over his head. The story begins with Royal being kicked out of his hotel room and having nowhere else to go, hatches a plan to gain entry into his old apartment by saying he has cancer.
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He was their only son. Odysseus did not want to go to the Trojan War so he pretended to be insane. Palamedes tested his insanity. He placed baby Telemachus in front of his father’s plow to see if Odysseus would hit his child. Of course, Odysseus failed and that proved to Palamedes he was mentally sane.
The Odyssey by Homer, was a story that took place in Ithaca. It told the story about Odysseus and his travels trying to go back to Ithaca for ten years after fighting in Troy, the quest, to see his son, Telemachus, and his wife, Penelope, the damsel in distress. When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, told the life long journey of a young Indian boy, Thomas Blackbull, who strongly believes in the old ways, the young man from the provinces, who was born in Pagosa, but wound up traveling the country as he grew up into a rodeo star
He confesses: “What I am about to say to you has taken me more than twenty years to admit: A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student” (598). Richard Rodriguez also explains that how he tactfully avoid hi family’s inquiry about his new-found love for books. He would hide inside of a
“It is I who am lost”, says Odysseus. Cursed by Poseidon he was forced to never go back home. Odysseus is a hero, he came back for his wife and daughter so she won’t have to force marry another man. First, Odysseus sailed to an island occupied by Polyphemus a Cyclops and the son of Poseidon. Out of curiosity him and his man evaded the Cyclops house looking for food, or treasure.
Prof. M. Jarrell English 225 17Sep 2011 The Odyssey, The Journey of Telemakhos and Athena The young son of Odysseus, being stead fast loyal to his mother and a father, who he has yet to meet, is bound and determined to found out the truth of his father’s whereabouts. After hearing, I am sure, countless stories about him for most of his young life and when he got to be old enough, Telemakhos decides to set sail from his country of Ithaka to Pylos first then on to Sparta. Telemakhos is left little choice in his decision because his mother Penelope is, on a daily basis, hounded by numerous suitors determined to take the place of Odysseus. Only her natural cunning
Eventually, the hero returns to the life he or she led before. The main characters in the poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh and the modern day version of this story, the movie, Hancock, are no different. Although they take place thousands of years apart, ultimately both heroes embark on a hero’s journey through separation, initiation and eventually they return. As the hero’s journeys begin they seem to refuse the call. Gilgamesh does whatever he wants; he “tak[es] the son from the father…wives of other men… keeps boys from fathers” (3).