In Chapter 2, the overall main idea that the author writes about is Gantos going on shore with Hamilton to practice his sailing before leaving to New York. He talks about the hard work of sailing a boat. He explains the frustration he goes through having to deal with Hamilton’s attitude. His daily reminders “the money. The money.”, helping him to cool down. They first head to Buck Island beach as his first sail which ended up in disaster, two days after they leave St. Croix. Gantos was full of excitement for his new adventure. He goes to the bookstore before he leaves to check out some books of sea to help deal with Hamilton. Their first arrival is to Little Dog Island were Gantos begins to load the hash on the boat. After loading the two thousand
Rainsford is fighting to survive a thrilling hunt in The Most Dangerous Game. Odysseus is caught in a long journey fighting for his life and home in The Odyssey. The two men are extremely similar in their dangerous adventure. Parallels are seen in their skills, journey, and enemies. But even with these parallels, The Odyssey is deeper and has a more emotional ending than The Most Dangerous Game.
When writing the book Into the Killing Seas, Michael P. Spradlin accurately explained the details and the historical value of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis. Additionally, it's clear that he did a lot of research on his topic of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis and what the remaining sailors had to deal with to survive. Switching Gears, his book is not only based on the WW2 sinking of the Indy, but The battles of Guam. He accurately described the terror people in history felt when the attacks happened.
Although the heroic journey of Odysseus and Luke Skywalker resemble one another with similar heroic steps, the difference in Odysseus’s journey distinguish him as the exemplary epic hero.
In the Hero’s journey, The Odyssey, the main protagonist, Odysseus, changes in a way which helps him gain self-knowledge. Odysseus ' experiences transformed his personality from how he was in the beginning to the end, by leading him through a heroic journey, also known as a quest. The real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason, and this is no different with Odysseus. As the story developed, many of Odysseus’ sides were exposed through the challenges he faced. Out of the countless dangers and obstacles every step back home, him and his crew have only acquired minimal character changes. Even though they are minimal, they are those which take many decades to achieve.
Expectations of Heroes in Wonderful Fool and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Hero’s Journey is never an easy one. This particular journey, as detailed in Homer’s The Odyssey, is one of struggle, loss, heartache, pain, growth and triumph. It is comprised of many steps that Odysseus has to overcome and battle through in order to achieve his final goal of reaching his home and his loved ones. From the Call to Adventure to the Freedom or Gift of living, Odysseus conquered them all. The story begins in the middle of the story, as many of the oral Greek traditions did, with the Journey of Telemachus to find his father. Although Telemachus has not yet met his father, it is almost as if they are journeying together, where the end of both of their journeys results in being reunited. Telemachus journeys from being a boy to becoming a man, while out in the sea Odysseus is battling Poseidon to return to the home that wife that he loves and the home he has left behind.
Without a doubt, Géricault's most famous piece of work is The Raft of the Medusa. Painted with oil paint on a canvas 491 cm x 716 cm (Theodore Gericault, artrenewal.org) and released 1817, The Raft of the Medusa was based off an actual event; in 1816 a French naval Méduse became a shipwreck off the shores of northwest Africa. All but a small fraction of the survivors died before help came to their aid. The members of this survivor group turn to shocking acts, like cannibalism, that left the story covered in shame. Géricault painted this realistic memorial to arouse government negligence, but in no way meant to criticize the government itself. (The J.Paul Getty Museum, getty.edu) In order to get the realistic aspects right, the artist interviewed
book takes place in, is called to action and set in motion on his Hero
I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes – a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. (P. 171).
The book The Great Gatsby tells the story of Jay Gatsby who is an uber wealthy man. The book starts by a young man named Nick Carraway moves to New York. He rents a small home next to a mansion in the West Egg district of Long Island. Nick lives next to an extremely wealthy,
Imagine returning home from both a mentally and physically demanding battle, only to realize the most challenging task yet is to face the task of fitting in with the ordinary. A soldier can never truly return home to join a society. One can return from battle in their physical state, though both their mentality and perspective of the world cannot be restored to what once was. The scars and numerous hardships associated with war change a person beyond their appearing attributes, profoundly affecting the mind and soul; a previous life is never the same when an individual returns as a drastically different character. Within The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Stanley Lombardo, the effects of conflict demonstrate how an individual can be greatly distanced from their once familiar society. Illustrated by Odysseus and his encounters home from war, one cannot be found when lost in the psyche and spirit, the world cannot be perceived in the same sanguine demeanor when used as a foundation
For one goal in life there is a multitude of setbacks that come with it, and there is no other way around it. The ones who complete their goals never said this too hard or it’s not worth all of this work. They went head on and faced the walls in their way.Two great examples of people who finished great goals and surpassed the many demanding trails are Kira Salak and Odysseus.
The Shipman’s Tale, one of the many tales in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, is exactly suited to the Shipman’s personality and profession as given in “The Prologue.” The shipman is described by Chaucer in the prologue as very sneaky, deceitful, and even pirate-like. The Shipman’s tale matches his personality and profession because The Shipman’s Tale is one of trickery and con. The monk in the tale tricks both the merchant and the merchant’s wife out of their money. He also uses his relationship with the merchant to his advantage, because he knows the merchant would never suspect him of having sex with his wife. The shipman is also portrayed in the prologue to have no sense of remorse or feelings of sorrow.
In “The Odyssey” by Homer, Odysseus is a clever and cunning king of Ithaca, in Greece,
In chapter 13, the great Odysseus finally returns home to his beloved Ithaca. The chapter begins with Odysseus and his newfound Phaeacian comrades returning the heralded king to his land before setting off themselves to Phaeacia, their home. While the good willed travelers made their way home, the gods up in Olympus plotted against their homecoming, as Poseidon, who was still angry at Odysseus, desired to punish those who aided in him in returning. Zeus helps Poseidon devise ways to punish the Phaeacians, until they decided it was best to destroy their ship as it embarked to their native land, causing the Phaeacians to beg for forgiveness through sacrifices. Meanwhile back in Ithaca, Odysseus, who had just woken up, encounters Athena disguised