Charlotte's+Reading+Journal

Question: (Odyssey Part 1) 1.) What island and how long did Odysseus stay with his men there,after he went on looking what creatures Cyclopes were? Charlotte, I'm glad to see you are making an effort to participate in the reading journal. But I think you could dig a little deeper and work a little harder to ask deeper questions. Try it on Section 2. You might ask Laura to share her Reading Journal with you. While she need to dig deeper, too, she is making some progress in that direction.

I am kind of confused with all the characters, so I listed them after their importance and their origins. 1.)Odysseus: King of Ithaca, he is Laerte 's son, Telemachus his own son together with wife Penelope 2.)Zeus:most powerful God 3.)Poseidon:brother of Zeus, he governs the ocean 4.)Helios:God of the sun 5.)Hermes:Son of Zeus, God of protection 6.)Cyclopes:a race of one-eyed giants

Homer:-written all by him -famous peoms -no real date when or where he lived -there are a lot of different legends about him

Part 1) and Part 2) ( comment) The first time I read it I already noticed that "Odyssey" is not a a story like every other. It is a very old literature piece and was written by Homer. Homer, the author uses a very bizarre rhyme scheme. He makes a lot of paragraphs that makes it maybe easier to read and always starts his new line in the middle of the page. Those aspects were weird for me at the beginning! But as soon as you continue to read, you realize that he uses the scheme continuously and you get used to it.

Odysseus is a very intense man that works very hard in every situation because he always has a goal in his mind! He fights for everything and really believes in himself and in his men, this really impressed me. He never gives up, even when all the Gods are after him. I think you can really admire someone who is that tough, who has a wife and a child at home and has to fight for his life ( !wow!) Though his wife and son are waiting patiently until Odyssey finally returns home safely. And yes, he does, after fighting through Cyclopes, loosing his men during the windy storm trough Poseidon and fighting a lots of enemies.He can finally return home. I could never stay that strong as Odysseus does, I would already have given up! He sometimes has to fight all by himself, imagine those night, where you are starving have no place to go and have to move with such fears, to survive. He is a real hero for his folk! Wow, Charlotte, I am very impressed with the work you have done here. This is top quality work! Here are some of the things you've done that are really good. First, you've taken notes that will really help you understand and remember what is going on in the epic. Second, you have done high qualiity analysis. You weren't just satisfied to know what happened, you worked to understand what it meant and to express that. You also considered how the character Odysseus relates to your own life. And that's the purpose of literature anyway, isn't it? Very good work!

Part 3) I think for me, part 3, was the one that I liked the most! When you read through the story and you see how all his men die, you almost give up on Odysseus! You wouldn't think that he would come back home, alive!! I like that part a lot because, of that long talk with his son and the description is very well, how his son feels after seeing his father again after 20 years! Beggar and the Manor; Only his son, Telemachus knows about his father home coming, All the others, except for his dog don't recognize Odysseus. Even his wife doesn't know that he is there or even alive!! Just after a few days he meets his wife for the first time and... ( we didn't read the rest)