Penelope Monologue

Already I know we are going to have so much fun (and drama) with these two. I kind of agree with as kids being closer and sort of falling apart as they grew older. To be completely honest they are both knuckle heads who need to get over themselves, but of course thats going to be a long way down the road. But yes, no matter what they are certainly going to act like brothers, I actually made Wallace purposly older by a year just so I could see him play that "I'm older than you card." I could actually see Wallace partially trying to prove himself to Bennett because to him Bennett is the pinnicale of Jazz sucess in his eyes at the moment as he hasn't been able to be close to anyone as close to it as him. I could see him being even partially angry seeing Bennett get to cocky since he had it all for a while and ruined it through his arogance, so like Wallace has

When George went to offer Hazel some of his reviving beverage, there was a hard pounding clamor which seemed like a thump on the entryway. The more hesitant they became, the louder and more restless the sound got to be. At first, George thought it was another of those sounds, yet he didn't generally observe an effect.

Atwood’s take on the character of Penelope in The Penelopiad first describes her as an average and modest woman with a single defining trait of intelligence, whereas Odysseus is introduced to the story as a cheat and a thief. In due time, Odysseus leaves to fight in the war against Troy, and then starts his ten year voyage back to Ithaca. However, in the twenty years he was gone, Penelope has learned to independently manage the land, and use her wits to trick the Suitors and learn of their plans. When Odysseus finally returns home, Penelope knows to not reveal his true identity and doesn’t tell him of her deceptive ways. The two characters have flipped traits in this way, as now Penelope is the master of tricks and Odysseus follows her lead.

            Despite this high opinion of Penelope, before he left, Odysseus and Kalypso " . . . retired, this pair [He and Kalypso], to the inner cave/to revel and rest softly, side by side."(Homer V:235-238)  This was not the only time Odysseus "retired", with another woman.  On the island of Kirke "[he] entered Kirke's flawless bed of love"(Homer X:390).  Despite these few instances, Odysseus remained faithful to Penelope in their twenty years apart.  He never loved either Kalypso or Kirke as he did Penelope, and thusly chose not to stay with either of the two.  Although the principle might get lost in the tale, Penelope played the part of the goal for Odysseus to obtain, or re-obtain by the end of the Odyssey.

I choke on laughter at her suggestion. How in hell could she possibly think that I would agree and go with her and Diego the Brazilian bull-dozer that ripped our family apart to live with in fucking Argentina?

Everyone has that stereotype about the popular pretty blonde girl. That is the reader's’ first impression of Penelope. When she first learns Arnold’s name, she laughs at him and whispers to her friends. “What’s your name?’ Penelope asks. “Junior.” I said. She laughed and told her girlfriends at the next desk that my name was Junior.” pg. 59. When I first read about Penelope, I wondered if she was just going to be a mean popular girl, and if her only purpose was to be rude to Arnold. Every popular girl has something fueling them to be mean, and I wondered what was fueling her. Arnold’s first impression of Penelope was how pretty she was. “She was so pretty and her eyes were so blue. I was suddenly aware that she was the prettiest girl I had

Frances made a telephone call to one of her best friends who live in Manhattan. Her name was Christina. Frances started to tell Christina the whole situation between Michael and herself. Christina never met Michael before.

Imagine this, it’s noon and you’re outside on a beautifully sunny day. Everything is going perfectly swell until suddenly you’re swallowed by an unexpected wave of blistering hot air. You black out and moments, maybe hours later, you regain your conscience and find yourself stranded somewhere in an unnaturally gorgeous island. That’s practically the story of everyone who finds themselves on an island called Nil, and everyone who finds themselves on the mysterious island has exactly a year to leave before they die. On this pretty little island was a girl named Natalie. She was a veteran on Nil and had priority. Having priority meant that you

Emily: (shakes her head) "No. I think Kate's motto has always been 'Don't bring your personal issues to work'."

While traditional readers of Homer’s, The Odyssey, view Odysseus as a hero, they often reduce Penelope to Odysseus’s helpless wife, but Penelope is more than just a damsel-in-distress. Penelope proves to be Odysseus’s heroic equal, as through her resilient, witty and strategic actions she ensures Odysseus fighting advantages over the suitors.

Penelope. The mother of Telemachus and the wife of Odysseus. She felt as if everything in her life was going wrong. Her dear husband had been gone for several years at this point, the suitors would soon be arriving, and her son Telemachus had left in the morning to find Odysseus. This leaves Penelope with who? She could not bare the thought of living in a world where she was constantly surrounded by suitors, so she decided to follow her son. He had left tht town of Ithica several hours before, but she was determined to catch up to him. Penelope packed her bag and left. The journey to find her husband and son was not going to be easy, but anything was better than staying at home. Athena saw that Penelope was in need of a disguise so that she

We tried to figure out where the smell was coming from, but we somehow ended up inside a giant cave. The giant cyclop appeared and locked the entrance. He later ate 6 of our men, two at a time. Great Ella blinded the cyclops, who was named polyphemus, after she offered him wine. Ella cleverly told polyphemus that her name is "No Man", so when the cyclops would scream for help of the other cyclops, he would say “No man has hurt me”. Our plan was successful and we got sheep from the island of the cyclops.

“Ah, well there were some obstacles on the way back from my long and tiring trip. I’ll tell you over lunch,” Odysseus said. They gave Odysseus lunch and he started to talk about his story, “So this is how it started.”

“Damn you... damn you to hell!” I throw my sword in the blood soaked ground, tears running down my cheeks.

Homer's Odyssey is a story of the homecoming of Odysseus after the Trojan War.  Odysseus left his wife, Penelope, and their young son, Telemachos, almost twenty years before the telling of this story to fight in the Trojan War.  His absence places Penelope in a rather precarious position.  Faced with many different circumstances, both good and bad, Penelope is on her own to decide the path she wishes to take.  Depending on her decisions, the situations could either be filled with wonderful opportunities or perilous dangers. The strong character of Penelope is revealed by her decisions.