Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Odyssey character description

I chose Odysseus to write about because he is the most impotant person in the Odyssey. He is also the main focus of the Odyssey and the most interesting. At the end of  the Odyssey, when Odysseus returns to his kingdom, and his home Ithaca. He meets his swineherd, who is almost speechless when he recognizes who this "stranger" is that has walked up to his home. Telemachus, Odysseus' son, convieniently walks by the swineherders house fro his last journey to find his father. When Telemachus hears the swineherd talk about his father, he threatens to kill him. Odysseus and Telemachus are reunited when Odysseus shows himself to his son. Odyesseus meets Athena that night. Athena makes Odysseus look like an old beggar so he can get into his kingdom and get Penelope back. He does this by getting his son to help him into the palace, then to wait until Penelope was going to decide who she was going to marry. Once he completed the challenge, he was returned to his real form. He then told his son to lock the doors to the exits and that now was the time to "release hise anger" on all the suitors who tried to steal his mother from his father. Telemachus ends up killing all of them. Odysseus then meets his wife again, and everything is back to normal.

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