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Six Of Crows By Leigh Bardugo Analysis

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Man’s Basic Necessities: Food, Water, Air...Home? In Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, the main character, Kaz, has grown up without a real home for the majority of his life. However, while his tangible home consists only of a small room in a gambling house, throughout the series he realizes his real home is with his crew -- his friends. While not exactly realizing this consciously, Kaz demonstrates this subconscious realization many times, when his crew are in life and death situations, and he perseveres to make sure everyone is safe. Similarly, The Odyssey by Homer and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, while two very different texts, both focus on the symbol of home. The Odyssey focuses on the struggles of Greek hero Odysseus as he tries to return to his home Ithaca but faces obstacles and temptations along the way. Of Mice and Men follows two migrant workers, George and Lennie and their struggle to achieve their dreams and live a happy life in a world where reaching one’s goal is extremely hard. Both Homer and Steinbeck, in their respective texts, use the idea of home to demonstrate the perseverance necessary to achieve one’s goals. Home can be represented in many forms, sometimes as an abstract idea that gives a person a dream to hold onto even in the darkest of times. When Odysseus is describing his hardships to King Alcinous and his court, he explains to the king no matter how long he stayed with Calypso or Circe, he “never gave consent”(Homer 143), asking “Where

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