- Which adventure do you feel was the most difficult one Odysseus faces? Why?
- Which adventure do you feel was the least difficult? Why?
- During these adventures, which decision was the best? Why?
- What is Odysseus's worst decision? Why?
- What do the majority of Odysseus's decisions during these adventures show about his character?
Monday, November 30, 2009
Adventures & Decisions
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The most difficult adventure Odysseus faced was probably the Island of Aeolia. Odysseus received a bad of wind to help him sail home. However, he never told his men what was in the bag, so they got curious and opened it. When they did, the bag of wind blew them backwards, undoing their 9 days of sailing. The easiest adventure Odysseus had to face was Hades. There, Elpenor asked Odysseus to make him a proper burial. The only thing he had to do was go back to Aeaea to get his stuff. Odysseus also got to talk to his dead mother and asked questions about his family back at home.
Odysseus’ worst decision was to not tell his men about the bag of wind. If he had told them what was inside, they wouldn’t have opened it and sent them back 9 days worth of sailing. He shouldn’t have kept the secret from the people he was working with to get home. His best decision was asking his mother in the Underworld about his family. With the information she gave him, he wasn’t so curious and anxious about what was going on.
The majority of Odysseus’ decisions show his determination to get home to his family. They show he is courageous and willing to do what it takes. He may not always make the most intelligent choices, but he always finds a way to fix them.
I think Odysseus’s toughest journey was getting past the six-headed monster Scylla, and the gigantic whirlpool monster, Charybdis. He was trying to save his men from being eaten by Scylla while also trying to avoid the giant whirlpool Charybdis. The easiest journey was when he was in Hades and listening to the stories from the ghosts.
His best decision was thinking of the horse at troy to help win the Trojan War. But his worst decision was going into the cave where the Cyclops was. He lost a lot of men there. Also another equally bad decision was no telling the men about the bag of winds, which ruined their entire journey.
Being in the Cyclops cave showed how smart he was when he tricked him. Trying to fight off Scylla showed he ad courage and that he would take on anything he thought he could beat. He also shows courage by taking on tasks like going to Hades.
Odysseus faced many adventures throughout his journey, some were difficult and some were on the easier side. I feel as though the most difficult challenge Odysseus faced was when he had to get him and his men out of Polyphemus's cave on Cyclops island. I think this was the most difficult because in order for Odysseus's plan to work to get out of the cave many things had to go right. For instance, the Cyclops had to like the wine and pass out, they had to have the wooden rod to poke his eye out, the name "Noman" had to trick the other Cyclops, and they had to figure out that they needed to get out on the bottom of the sheep as well. The easiest adventure was at the Land of the Lotus Eaters. This is were the Lotus Eaters gave his men Lotus flowers. Which were flowers that made the men stop careing about making it to there homeland. I feel that this was the easiest adventure because there wasn't many differnet things Odysseus could of done. All he did was use his commen sence and tie the men down so they couldn't eat the plants and demanded them to stop eating them. In summary, those are the adventures that I thought were most difficult and least difficult.
In these adventures Odysseus made some great decisions and some bad ones. In the adventure on Cyclops Land his best descision was that he told the Cyclops that his name was "Noman." I think this because when the Cyclops shouted "Noman is hurting me," it led the other cyclops to think that it was just an act of the gods so they didn't bother to check if everything was alright. Which makes it his best descision because all of his men and him didn't die. The worste decision Odysseus made in this adventure was being when he was being greedy and tried to go to the Cyclops and expect xenia from the Cyclops which is when a person recieves gifts and a party from the lands people because it may be a god in mortal form. This was bad because the Cyclops hate the gods because there parents who are the gods dont like them and left them on that island and they aren't afraid of the gods. The best descision of the Land of the Lotus eaters was tieing the men down so that they counldn't eat the Lotus flowers. This was the best descision because if he kept letting them eat the flowers they would of forgot about there homeland. The worste decision he made during this adventure was ever letting his men get near the flowers. Those were the best and worste decisions that he made during these adventures.
All of these decisions Odysseus made throughout the story can describe him in one characteristic. And this characteristic is smart or clever. He always finds a way to get out of whatever trouble he is in with a plan. For instance when he gets out of the Cyclops cave. In conclusion, that is what the adventures show about him.
I believe that the most difficult adventure that Odysseus faces is the adventure in Lotus Land. The situation that happens here is when the crew was addicted to the lotus. So, Odysseus reacted by tying up his crew and bringing them onboard. This shows a lot about Odysseus’s character, such as him being determined to get as many people of the crew as he can home to their families. I believe that the adventure of Scylla and Charybdis was the least difficult for Odysseus. The situation that happens here is Silla is a six headed monster and Charybdis is a whist pool. So, Odysseus reacts by making a choice to lose six men instead of all his men . This shows a lot of about Odysseus’s personality
I feel that the best decision was in the adventure that Odysseus faces in Troy. The situation that happens here is the Trojan War. It lasted ten years. Odysseus makes a good move and thought of the Trojan Horse which shows he is wise and smart. So, this shows that Odysseus made a decision for the better. The worst decision Odysseus made was in Thrinicia. The situation that happens here is when the cow gets mad at Odysseus because he kept them from eating the men. Odysseus then has to pray so that the crow do not eat helics cattle. So, this shows that Odysseus is trying to keep the cow from eating the cattle.
The majority of Odysseus’s decisions during these adventures show Odysseus’s character as being smart, wise, determined, sneaky, desperate, logical and brave.
Odysseus took many adventures trying to get home. In my opinion the most difficult ones was Cyclops land. I think this was the most difficult journey because of all the things he had to do while he was there. First he got stuck in the cave then he lost six of his men. Finally he came up with a plan that would let them escape. He had to burn the wood get the Cyclops drunk and poke him in the eye. Lastly he had to get the surviving men to hide under sheep to escape and he almost got caught. This is why I think Cyclops land was the most difficult adventure he went on. I think one of the least difficult adventures Odysseus had to go on was to Hades. I think this was the least difficult adventure because he already had sheep to sacrifice the blood and he is a hero so he was able to pass through the river Oceanus. These are the top out of all the adventure he had to go on.
I think the best decision Odysseus made while he was on these adventures was going on the side of Silla at the Strait of Messina instead of charybdis’ side. I think this was his best decision because he only lost six men instead of all of the men including himself. The worst decision he made was when he was at Helios’ island and left the other men alone when he went to pray. I think this was the worst decision because he knew that the last time he let them out of his supervision Eurolycus let his greediness get to him and he convinced the men to open the bag of wind. And it sent them all the way back to Aeolia when they were just about to reach the shore of Ithaca. This time when he left them alone something bad was bound to happen. And it did, once again Eurolycus convinced the men to kill Helios sacred cattle that were basically his “pride and joy.”
Based on Odysseus’ decision I can tell that he is very determined to get himself and all the men he can home.
The adventure that is most difficult for Odyssues was when he was in Ogygia with Calypso. It was the toughest for him because he was so miserable. He missed his homeland, son Telemachus, and his wife Penelope. Calypso held him captive for 7 years. That was 7 years of him being sad and wondering if he will ever get home. Calypso also forced him to sleep with her. He really was not happy. The easiest trip for Odysseus is when he was on Aeolea. He stays there for a month being entertained. Odysseus makes the best of it but then decides it is time to leave. His decisions were smart because he enjoys his stay but does not take advantage.
Out of all Odysseus's adventures, he made the best decison when he was passing by the Sirens. He made a good decision because he knows that the sounds would try to pursuade them to go there, but he makes all of his men use earplugs so they would not have to hear it. Odysseus however, does not use the earplugs. He is just smart and strong enough to resist it. It was difficult but he succeeded. The worste decsion made by Odysseus happened in Cyclops Land. To escape from Polythemus, he had to stab him in the eye and blind him. He succeeded in doing this however, when he was leaving, he made a stupid mistake. He got cocky and decided to yell who he was and where he was from. Not only did Polythemus now know this information, Poseidon then knew because Polythemus is the son of Poseidon. Poseidon then made Odysseus's life miserable. He nearly killed him on his journey back to Ithica and this sets him back.
Most of the desicions Odysseus makes on his journey were smart. He tried as hard as he could a lot of times to get out of the tough situations they were in such as in Lotus Land and Sirens. However, some of the decisions were bad. For example when he told Polythemus who he was and where he was from. That causes problems for him in the future because the god of the sea now despises him for blinding his son. Odysseus is also a little greedy at part of his journey. He only wanted to go on Cyclops Land to recieve gifts. He couldn't just be on his way. His men suggested to just steal what they saw but that was not good enough for Odysseus. But, when Odysseus got on the island, there were those consiquences with Polythemus. Overall however, Odysseus keeps his title has a smart, strong hero.
The most difficult adventure Odysseus faced was when Odysseus went to Cyclops land and was stuck in Polyphemus' cave. I think this because Odysseus and his men were trapped in a cave with a Cyclops. But, due to his intellect Odysseus tricked the Cyclops and got out. Odysseus' least difficult adventure was when he went past the Sirens. Because he quickly knew what to do to save him and his men from listening to their songs. During all of Odysseus' adventures his best decision was going to the underworld to speak to his past away mother and Tiresias. Because Tiresias told Odysseus his way back home to Ithaca. Odysseus' worst decision was when he told Polyphemus who had blinded him because Odysseus basically gave himself in because now Polyphemus knows who did that to him. The majority of Odysseus' decisions show about him is that Odysseus is not only brave and strong, but, smart to. This is what most of Odysseus' adventures and decisions are.
One bad decision that Odysseus makes is when Aeolus gives Odysseus and his crew a bag of wind to get them home safely. Odysseus shipmates think that Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of gold and silver secretly. So Odysseus’s shipmates tear open the bag of winds they thought was gold or silver. Now they get blown back Aeolia.
I feel that the most difficult adventure Odysseus faces is when he goes to the city of the Cicones and the lotus eaters. Odysseus looses six men per ship right after they escape. Then they come across the Lotus-eaters. Odysseus’s men start to eat the plants. These plants make a person not care about heading home and talking about their journey to their family. They eat the fruit and Odysseus must force his men into the ship and locks them up so they don’t get out. This is what I think was the most difficult adventure Odysseus faces.
The adventure that Odysseus faces that was the least difficult was when he had to sail back to help his crewman Elpenor. Elpenor fell off Circe’s roof and broke his neck, and died. Elpenor told Odysseus that when he dies that he wants a proper burial, which was to be burned. This is why this decision was the least dfficult.
The majority of these decisions that Odysseus makes brings out a lot in him. First when he helps his crewman back into the ship after they ate the Lotus. Secondly, he follows through in also helping Elpenor. While doing this special ceremony he encounters his dead mother, and they talk. Lastly, he plugs his men’s’ ears with beeswax so they don’t hear the seductive song of the Sirens. All these decisions all show that Odysseus is a helping person. This is why the majority of Odysseus’s decisions show a lot about his character.
The best decision that Odysseus makes was when he gives the proper burial to his friend, Elpenor. This leads to seeing his dead mother, Anticleia, when Tiresias leaves. Anticleia tells Odysseus that she had died of a broken heart, waiting for him to return from Troy. Without helping Elpenor, Odysseus would not have seen and talked to his mother. This is why this example was the best decision that Odysseus makes in the adventure chapters.
The adventure that I thought was the most difficult for Odysseus is when he was sailing past Scylla and Charybdis. I think this because even if he sailed past Charybdis without losing any of his men he still lost 6 of his best men when he past Scylla. The adventure that was the least difficult for him was when he went to Hades to see Tiresias. I think this because all he had to do on this trip was to let Tiresias drink the blood so that he can tell Odysseus what to do to get back home. I think that the best decision that Odysseus made was telling his men about the Sirens so that he can listen to their singing while his men had wax in their ears so that they can pull him away from the Sirens. The worst decision that he made was not telling his men not open the gift the god of the wind game him. By not telling his men not to open the bag, Odysseus fell asleep and his men opened the bag and sailed away from Ithica. His decisions show that he needs to be told what to do, for example he didn’t tell his men about the bag of winds and ended back at Aeolia when they were in sight of Ithica, he was told to tell his men about the sirens and if he didn’t tell his men about the Sirens he and his men would have died.
the adventure i think was the most difficult for odesseus was going to cyclops land and geting stuck in the cave and his men getting eaten by polythemous.the least difficult was lotus land because he just had to make his soldiers to stop eating lotus.His worst decion odesseus made was when he gave polythemous his real name and where he was from.
I feel that the most difficult journey that Odysseus faced was the one where he faced Syla and Caribdus. I feel strongly that this was the hardest not just because of the toughness of the challenge, but how he knew that he would lose six soldiers to Syla. In this adventure Odysseus must pass through a straight in between two cliffs. But the trick is there are two deadly monsters; one is a whirlpool that doesn’t move but if you get to close will suck you up named Caribdus. The other one is a giant bird named Syla with six sets of limbs and heads. The only way to get by these obstacles is to avoid the whirlpool and have Syla take six of his men then runaway as fast as they could.
I feel that the least difficult adventure was their time on Circe’s island. I say this because no one died, except for one of the men who got drunk and fell off the roof, but when she turned half the men into pigs all Odysseus did was go there and on his way there Hermes gave him a magic herb to prevent Circe’s potion then made love to her and freed the men which wasn’t too hard. Then the men stayed there drinking and eating for one year before setting sail which wasn’t too hard either.
I feel that Odysseus’s best decision on the Journey was to not tell his men of Syla who would eat six of them. Even though it must have killed Odysseus inside he did what he had to, to get the rest of the men home safely.
Odysseus’s clearly worst decision was to not tell the men of the bag of winds. It caused the men to go back very far on their journey because when they opened it a strong wind pushed the ships away from Ithica many miles. This was Odysseus’s fault because it wouldn’t have been bad for him to tell him but neglecting to eventually lead to all their deaths.
During all of Odysseus’s journeys you see that he is a wise and clever leader. But you also see that he can make mistakes and is human. Finally you see that what Odysseus cares about most is getting his men back home and seeing his wife and son.
I think that the most difficult adventure Odysseus faces was his conflict with Prometheus the Cyclops. I think this because it required a great deal of cunning to get him and his men out of that situation. It also must have taken a great deal of courage to stab his eye. Odysseus’s least difficult adventure was probably his encounter with the sirens since they were very well prepared to counter anything that the sirens threw at them. The men simply put beeswax in their ears so they could not hear the sirens song however, Odysseus stubbornly ordered his men to tie him down so he can hear the song. Odysseus’s best decision was when he cleverly outsmarted the Cyclops multiple times by, getting him drunk, blinding him, telling him his name was “Noman” and hiding his under his cattle to get out. This was his best decision because he got out alive in a clever fashion. His worst decision was to tell his name, father, and origin to the Cyclops after getting away on the boat. This was his worst decision because he gave his identity to the Cyclops who prayed to his father which got Poseidon angry at him.
The most difficult adventure that Odysseus had to do was when he had to get out of the cave when the cyclops locked him and his men in. This was the hardest adventure because there was a lot of things that could have went wrong in his plan to get out of the cave. I think his easiest adventure was when he went to lotus land. I think this because the only thing he had to do was tie his men down and he never had to come close to dying or anything like all his other adventures.
He also made many decisions in the book. One good decision he made was to tie himself to the pole so that the sirens wouldn't sing there songs and make him want to go vistit them so he can get eaten. One bad decision he made was to not tell the men about the bag of winds he had. This was bad because the men thought he was hiding gold from them and not sharing it with then so they opened it and blew the ship in the wrong direction.
All the ways that Odysseus solved these problems to keep him and his men going on there journey showed that he was strong and brave. Also i think hes smart because he comes up with good ways to get out of tough situations. One way he did this was his plan to get the cyclops drunk then blind him and hide under the sheep to escape the cave
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I think that the most difficult situation Odysseus and his men where in was when he was in the land of the Cyclops. In the land of the Cyclops he had to use his smarts to figure out a plan to get out alive. I think the easiest adventure he faced was when he was stuck on Ogygia because everything that happened to get him off the island happened for him and he didn’t have to do anything. During these adventures the best decision Odysseus made was to get the Cyclops drunk and blind him, the worst decision he made was to brag to the Cyclops revealing his name because the Cyclops then told his father Poseidon who blinded him. The decisions he makes show that he is very smart but also has a big ego.
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