Odyssey 2 Essay Research Paper OdysseyA

Odyssey 2 Essay, Research Paper

Odyssey

A man named Odysseus was on his way to capture City of Troy. He kissed his wife and hugged her in his most love kind of way because of him leaving. He told her that if he was not to come before his son had become at the age of a man than that she, his wife, should get married again. When he was leaving, his child was just born. He hugged his mom and told her not to worry. He looked at his son and kissed him on the cheek and told him to take care of his mother in a sort of laughing matter. He went off with his men and started going towards City of Troy. They had a plan where they would make a horse, with them being inside of it and then giving the horse as a gift to the city. That is what they did and then at night when everyone was drunk and sleeping, Odysseus and his men got out of the Trojan Horse and then started killing them. They had taken over City of Troy and that was something that when people tried doing, but they would never return. He did this and then when he was about to leave he was told by the Water that he would not ever return home because of such a thing he did. He would be sailed out into the sea but never return home again. Odysseus was astonished by this and was angered. He screamed out for the Water and started getting more and more mad. He told his men they had to start leaving anyhow. They were sailing for five years when they came on to an island that they thought they might be able to find food there. They found this humongous cave with this humongous bed and humongous pieces of cheese. They all started to eat the cheese and laying down in the bed. Then suddenly they heard footsteps coming towards them. Very loud ones as if it was an aftershock from an earthquake. Then Odysseus told his men to stand still and not to make a move. Next thing that happened was a One Eyed Giant came and then asked them what they were doing in his cave. He told them that that was his food and his bed and his cave. Odysseus explained to him that they came here for a visit to find food and also to give him a present. The One Eyed Giant grabbed one of the men and ate them up and then the blood from the body started gushing out as if it was a small plaza waterfall. The One Eyed Giant laughed in horror and Odysseus tried to calm him down from all of this. He said they came to give him stuff. Then all of a sudden one of the men started playing their flute and then the One Eyed Giant started to sleep little by little. Then they had to get a way to get out of the cave, but they couldn’t because of the cave being locked on the inside by a huge rock that was a shape of a wheel. Then Odysseus had an idea. He said he would get a stick and sharpen it and then stick it into his eye and when he starts crying he will try to tell his parents by leaving the cave and then Odysseus and his men leaving the cave. They sharpened the stick and then Odysseus got on top of the One Eyed Giant and then Odysseus jumped up and landed on the giant’s eye with the sharp stick in his eye. The giant was ferocious. He started throwing things and trying to grab one of the men to eat them. Then finally Odysseus saw that he opened a passage to outside and then they all ran out of their quickly while the One Eyed Giant was crying and screaming his parents and brothers names. Then Odysseus left.

At this time, his wife and his mother were at home and his little son was running around playing with a bow and arrow. His wife was telling his mother that she was still going to wait and his mother was still in a sad mood. The mother said he would never return and started going towards the shore. The wife cried and tried stopping her, but she said that if her son couldn’t come to me that she was going to him in the water. She then died in the shore as she was going right into the water. His wife cried and cried, but that really didn’t do her any good.

Now Odysseus came to a place where his men started getting angered at him and said they wanted food and started wandering around the areas of that island by himself. He stayed there with a couple of other men who decided to stay with him. After a couple of hours a pig started running towards them and then one of his men told Odysseus that that was one of his men. He said a witch turned that man and his other men into animals, but he managed to get away. He said she was a witch. When Odysseus was going towards where her place was, a fairy came and said she was expecting him and for him, Odysseus, to eat this grass which will make her not turn him into an animal. Odysseus ate it and when he went there, she tried to make him into an animal, but saw that she couldn’t. She told him she would turn them all into men if he would sleep with her in bed. It was an offer he could not say no so he did do this. Then those animals turned into his men and then the witch started telling her slaves, which were women to entertain for them. When Odysseus woke up he told his men to hurry and get up. He said it’s been a day and they have to leave. Then he left with the witch in sorrow. When he got to where his ship was he noticed it was coved by land and dug down way deep. That is when he knew that the witch’s cave was a curse. He had wasted ten full years, but felt like just one day.

His son had become fifteen and then he told his mom he would go out and find his father. She hugged her son and said to take care of himself.