Thursday, April 10, 2008

Kelly Cartwright the odyssey

The Odysseus Final Project Essay


The introduction of the hero’s journey is talking about the war, Odysseus, and to help Odysseus. Odysseus is the king of Ithaca. He goes to troy and goes to war. Then later when he returns he comes unknown. His wife doesn’t know.

Odysseus comes home from the war with Troy. He comes to his wife Penelope. She doesn’t know who is this strange man walking up to her. Odysseus kept on saying it’s me Odysseus. Penelope didn’t believe him so she gave him the questions to answer.

Odysseus wife had a baby after Odysseus left. Penelope named the baby Telemachus. When Odysseus returned he didn’t know that he had a son. When he left he didn’t even know that Penelope was pregnant. When Odysseus returned Telemachus was 20 years old.

Odysseus had left for 20 years. His wife didn’t know who he was. He son knew who he was. He knew who his dad was. Even though he was gone for about 20 years. He missed a lot when he was gone. He missed the birth of his son.

He had to take over his kingdom again when he returned. The suitors tried to take over. When he got home he had killed all of the suitors.

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