Otoliths Narrative Report

There’s an extreme number of books and films released every year. From this considerable list of entertainment there will most likely be mythical monsters. The Odyssey is a story that has many mystical monsters you would even have thought could be imagined. Out of all the movies and books ever made, there are many monsters that have been created. I discovered my monster by watching a horror film. “Tasty, tasty, beautiful fear”, this is a quote from a monster in a recent movie.

In The Odyssey, the act of storytelling plays a significant role in revealing the story of Odysseus. Each storyteller reveals a part of the past of Odysseus and his heroic deeds. Each of their stories gives insight into what a hero should be, according to the standards of the Greek society, and they each reflect a different aspect of a hero. When pieced together, each story becomes part of a whole, however, each has a different function within the epic. Some may not contribute to the hero directly, but teach a moral or lesson to the audience listening to the story. The audience directed towards is the Greek society and the morals are taught by storytelling. By using storytelling, a hero is often

Imagine a life without television, no internet, no cell phones, no radio, no movies, and no video games. This was the life during the Odyssey. The storytelling in the Odyssey gave Greek society a way of entertainment. Men, woman, and children would listen to these stories with attentiveness and would then share them throughout their lives. These stories were told in many ways such as in poems, songs, and tales. If not for storytelling in the Odyssey, the story of Odysseus would be a lot shorter, as well as insignificant to Greek society. The storytelling in the Odyssey knitted the life of Odysseus together, and gave many moral lessons and

Chapter 1- Ten years after the Trojan War, everyone reached home except for Odysseus. He remained a hostage at Ogygia by Calypso. Meanwhile, Telemachus (Odysseus’s son) is told by Athena, disguised as Mentes, that his father will return home and tells him to dispel the suitors who keep devouring his father’s estate.

he Odyssey, as written by Homer, intricately and excitingly weaves Colin Renfrew’s Subsystem Theories throughout the entire play. Many of the five subsystem theories can be seen and support understanding of the novel. Of the five systems, trade/communication, social/ political hierarchy and symbolic subsystems will be the focus of analysis in this paper. All of these subsystems come together in The Odyssey to explain the characters and their lives, and also how they fit into the society which they live in. To understand the growth and development of the characters, we must understand the systems theories, “many human actions have a meaning at several different levels, with undertones and overtones… it is the complex interconnectedness of the subsystems which gives human culture its unique potential for growth.” As this paper will demonstrate within The Odyssey, trade and communication, social and political hierarchy and lastly symbolic subsystems create adventure in Odysseus’s harrowing, yet exciting journey back to his kingdom and family. These specific subsystems add depth and excitement because we see how each specific one impacts Odysseus’s journey back home. They help us understand who Odysseus is a man and sympathize with all that he goes through. The communication subsystem helps explain how communication between people (and gods) in different lands aid to the success of his return home. We are able to see from the social subsystem how Odysseus and other men

The film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reinterpretation of the epic poem The Odyssey. The Coen brothers, writers and directors of the film, did not over analyze their representation. “It just sort of occurred to us after we’d gotten into it somewhat that it was a story about someone going home, and sort of episodic in nature, and it kind of evolved into that,” says Joel Coen in Blood Siblings, “It’s very loosely and very sort of unseriously based on The Odyssey” (Woods 32). O Brother, Where Art Thou? contains ideas from The Odyssey for the sake of modernization and entertainment of an audience that comprehends the allusions to the epic. The Coen brothers utilize elements of Homer’s The Odyssey to improve and to give direction to O

Many years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still hasn’t returned home to Ithaka. Many believe that he is dead, but the author lets us know that he is being held as a sex captive on the goddess Kalypso’s island. Kalypso has no plans of letting him go to return home either.

3. Analysis of radial cracks from three impacts revealed that cracks from A stopped at cracks from Z. Cracks from Z stopped at cracks from B. Which is the correct order of the impacts from first to last?

My Ithaca is the MLB. The way to the MLB, like Odysseus, has not been easy. I have encountered many obstacles that I have (or had) to overcome to keep on the right track to the MLB. Obstacles like my arm and high school can take me out of my goal, but allies like my parents and teammates will keep me from going off road.

Archetypes of the Odyssey Ancient Greece was full of mystery. They told of mystical, almost supernatural, heroes and monsters. One such story told of a warrior named Odysseus. A king who ruled over the kingdom of Ithaca, but sadly left for war, leaving his family. Fighting for almost a decade, Odysseus set off on a long journey towards home. Through thick and thin, and through all of the bloodshed and fighting, he finally has a happy ending at home. What will he lose as a result? Odysseus is in the category of a hero, one of the many archetypes modern readers use to identify main characters and all other concepts in literature. Therefore, all heroes experience the fright and thrill of adventure in most of their tales.

In the end of the book, The Odyssey, Odysseus takes out his vengeance on the wooers for taking his home. After a long battle between Odysseus, Telemachus and the wooers, Odysseus finally wins and punishes all of the wooers severely, whether it be execution or banishment. But many people believe that Odysseus' actions were far too harsh for what the wooers did. The wooers, as they are called, committed three major crimes: They attempted to kill Telemachus, they stole and vandalized Odysseus' palace, and they toke Odysseus' wife for their own. So the question is, is there too harsh of a punishment?

This passage is told as a flashback, as Odysseus sits in the palace of the Phaeacians telling the story of his wanderings. Odysseus reluctantly tells his story after King Alcinou notices his weeping during a minstrel, which was about the fall of Troy. So in answer to the King, Odysseus reveals his identity, background and adventures: from Troy, the winds sweep him and his men to Ismarus, city of the Cicones. The men plunder the land and, carried away by greed, refuses to leave until the Cicones turn on them and attack. Odysseus and his crew finally escape, having lost six men per ship.

Like always, I woke up this morning, ate my breakfast, and then sat outside on the shoreline of my island, just watching the water, looking out as far as I could see; nothing but ocean. I listened to the ocean waves crash on the shore, a sound I had always loved because I hear it everyday. Nothing ever changes and nobody ever comes or even sails near here. I am always alone, with no excitement. Everyday is always the same. I wake up, then I eat, then I sit on my rock by the shore and hope someone will come by or something will happen. Then, I eat again, then sit again. Finally, when I think I've had enough for the day, I go to sleep, and do it all over again the next day. I am kind of like a goddess, but a forgotten one either way. Most people

Ten years after the fall of Troy, the victorious Greek hero Odysseus has still not returned to his native land Ithaca. A band of rowdy suitors, believing Odysseus to be dead, has overrun his palace, courting his faithful—though weakening—wife Penelope, and going through his stock for food. With permission from Zeus, the goddess Athena, Odysseus' greatest immortal ally, appears in disguise and urges Odysseus' son Telemachus to seek news of his father at Pylos and Sparta. However, the suitors, led by Antinous, plan to ambush him upon return.

It’s August 8, 1200 B.C and my husband Odysseus is leaving for war. “I’m leaving for war in Troy,” these were the words that leave me with a broken heart for years. Nothing would save me from the hopelessness that I felt when I heard those words from my husband. What if he dies? I didn’t know what to think. I told him,” Odysseus, you can’t, I just birth our child!” I cried. “I know, and I loathe to leave you like this, but I just can’t get out of it,” as he tried to calm me down, while wiping my tears. I tried to suppress myself as the tears kept falling, I don’t want to become a mess at this moment. “This can’t happen, I’ll won’t live long without you,” I said in disbelief of what he is saying. Why should this happen to my family and what is Telemachus is going to think? My head was full of questions. He gave me kiss and say, “Take care of our son, our country and keep living, If I don’t come back you shall remarried.” After he said this he left and never turned back.