There isn’t one person in this world who isn’t damaged. But, there are more damaged people out there than others. Inman being one of them. A damaged person could’ve had a rough past or is going through a rough patch in their life. It is their choice whether or not they strive afterwards and be a hero or if they let it drag them down into a pit of despair. Inman sort of let himself go into that pit. When you think of a mythological hero, you think of someone who was a savior during a war, someone who battles through a rough time. Usually the hero will have some disasters during their journey and will receive help from supernatural sources. Inman was a deserter not a savior, he wanted to go to Cold Mountain, to find himself. During the war he didn’t do anything extraordinary. Inman faced a lot of setbacks on his journey to Cold Mountain, breaking him beyond repair. Unlike Odysseus in “The Odyssey”, where he was a war hero and was trying to get back to his family. …show more content…
However, he received help from a couple of people, for example: the ferry girl. She helped Inman cross the river. When they were crossing the river in her canoe, they encountered “the Whitworth [as] Inman thought” (Frazier 88). The ferry girl ended up saving both of their lives when she “threw her weight to rock the canoe hard” (89). The ferry girl was quick witted and showed Inman the way west when they were safe from danger. In mythology, the River Styx is a river to the Underworld. The River Styx is ferried by Charon, he helps take Odysseus to the Underworld so he can get back to Ithaca. The ferry girl represents Charon. River Styx resembles a harsh place, going from a living world to one that is dark and unpleasant, but for Inman it was the opposite, he was going from the dark unpleasant place to finding
Inman’s journey has been both negatively affected (Veasey) and positively affected (Sara). In my opinion, for all of the bad things that happen to Inman, something good happens. The best example of this is Veasey. Inman puts up with Veasey and his annoying habits for so long, and he saves his life in the end. Therefore, even the negative influences that Inman experiences on his odyssey, result in a positive outcome.
To Mr. David Ibarra (Ibarra Foundation) My name is Silvia Araoz, I am from Peru. I am very grateful because I am one of the winners of the Ibarra Foundation Scholarship. This scholarship will give me the opportunity to finish my Paralegal Program at Salt Lake Community College. Now, I will be able to face this competitive life and develop my professional legal career helping immigrant people who is still struggling to find a bright path for them and their families. As a single mom and hispanic immigrant woman we deserve a better environment to life with regulations and laws that can help us to be successful in our lives. We come to this country with a commitment to contribute to its greatness, most of us are unskilled but our strongness and
The Odyssey is a tale that has changed literature and storytelling. In this tale Odysseus is a Soldier from the battle of Troy trying to get home to his island of Ithaca, where he is king. His wife and son must wait ten years while he is trying to make his way home. In Odysseus’s absence wooer’s, or better known as suitors, learn of his absence and travel to Ithaca to win his wife’s hand in marriage. These men come every day feasting on Odysseus’s food and wine, and give his servant’s orders. His son Telemachus, does his best to keep the suitors from ruining his fathers house but he is only a boy, and doesn’t receive the respect of an adult. Telemachus then has a visit from the god Athena, whom Odysseus is friends with, who advises him to travel to find out about his father. In his travels he hears that Odysseus may still be alive. Meanwhile Odysseus goes through a series of adventures and hardships that prove his wisdom. It is interesting in contrast of the Iliad, even though Achilles was much stronger and a better warrior, Odysseus was portrayed as a greater hero due to his wisdom. He uses this wisdom to escape from the Cyclops.
Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor who invented the reaper. The reaper was a farming tool that helped Farmers all through the US. It was a tool for cutting and harvesting grain. McCormick started working on this machine in 1820. By the time 1831, when the actual machine could be used, the reaper could cut six acres of oats in one day. The reaper could also cut 20 acres of Wheat in a day. It was a device pulled by four horses and could do the work of six men. Since he knew his invention would do well, he set up his headquarters in Chicago, where he sold thousands of these reapers. Later he entered the reaper into London’s Great Exhibition, where he won first prize and made him an instant celebrity, making $1.25 million in profits.
Huck and Tom witness the murder of Doctor Robinson ,and they swear a blood oath. Huck and Tom noticed three approaching figures and it was Doctor Robinson , Injun Joe, and Muff Potter.“Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear they will keep mum about this and they wish they may drop dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot”. Tom shouldn't tell the sheriff what he has seen, because he could be killed by Injun Joe, no one will believe them.
The Inga 3 Project is a Dam building venture in the Congo. The idea was to build hydropower plants to extend energy across the globe. The original idea was to provide free or inexpensive energy and jobs to underdeveloped areas. This would be the third dam in the region. Inga 1 was completed in 1972 and Inga 2 was completed in 1982 and were a part of the Inga-Shaba project.
Nick was born into a Quaker family and grew up in Menlo Park, California. He attended Menlo High School and gained a passion for surfing. Woodman formed the high school's first surf club. He sold t-shirts at football games to raise money for the surf team. He graduated then went to get his Bachelor of Arts degree at UCSD (San Diego). He created 2 websites, one of which was called EmpowerAll.com which sold electronics at no more than a $2 markup. He also created a gaming platform called Funbug, but both unfortunately were not successful.
My name Ameenah Yamini, I am now 18 years old. I’m a senior at Frederick Douglass High School. I am the 12th child out of all my brother and sisters. It’s 7 girls and 5 boys, I know I have a big family. I used to live with both of my parents until my daddy died back in 2012, so now it’s just my mom and me. I used to have a job at Papa Johns in Dunwoody but I had to let it go because I have to focus on my school work. All i worry about is school, nothing else.
She later sparks a flame inside of Telemachus to embark on his journey to find his father. At the first destination Telemachus arrives at, Athena appears once again in the court of King Nestor. She appears in the form of an eagle to represent that she is beside Telemachus in his righteous journey to find his father. When hearing of her son’s departure, Penelope becomes extremely distraught. In an attempt to reassure and comfort her, Athena appears as a “glimmering phantom” and says these comforting words, “Take heart, and don’t be so afraid. The guide who goes with him is one many men pray for to stand at their side, a powerful ally- Pallas Athena. And she pities you in your grief, for it is she who sent me to tell you this” (Homer 342). There are many motivators for Athena in The Odyssey. Some could argue she relates with Penelope, and provides protection for her household throughout the years. Others may say she is enamored with Odysseus because of their relating character traits. Athena basically takes on the motherly role of watching over both Telemachus and Odysseus. She monitors both of the men’s journeys, and allows them to go through tribulations in order to grow emotionally and spiritually. Brian Lower a literature professor from Union College wrote,” Athena allows Odysseus to experience the storm, but not die. She knows that it will make him stronger for it. There is an
During Odysseus’ long and strenuous journey to make it back home to Ithaca, he encountered a countless number of dangers. Odysseus started off his voyage with an unwelcomed greeting from the Cyclopes, who swallowed a handful of Odysseus’ shipmates. Nevertheless, Odysseus and the remainder of the surviving shipmates escaped and rowed closer to their home. As the sailors advanced towards Ithaca, they faced the angered sun god Helios, sly sirens that tried to lure them to their deaths, and deadly whirlpools. The desperate men came across powerful winds and crashing waves, but they barely managed to get past it. Coming close to the end of the mens’ treacherous expedition, Zeus shot a bolt directly to their ship, and Odysseus was blown back to the
After the incident with the bag of winds it is reasonable for Odysseus to have trust issues, but when it is a matter of life and death, Odysseus is witless. After being punished by Zeus because some of his crew ate Helios’ cattle Odysseus drifts in the ocean until he lands on Calypso’s island. 7 years pass and Odysseus can finally leave after he crafts a ship, after he leaves and sails for a bit, Poseidon sees it as a time to get revenge for his son Polyphemus. Poseidon completely wrecks Odysseus’ ship when he is close to the land of the Phaeacians. A goddess named Ino sees this and offers Odysseus help.
Odysseus travels greatly leaving behind people that love him. He is trying to speak with Tiresias, the prophet that inhabits the underworld. He is told that Tiresias can instruct him on how to get back to Ithaca and that he could speak to other souls in the underworld. As he is waiting for the prophet, the spirit of his mother Anticlea arrives. She asks him why he is in the underworld alive. He tells her of his obstacle that he faces in “Never yet have I neared Achaea, never once set foot on native ground, always wandering – endless hardship from that day I first set sail with King Agamemnon bound for Troy” and his attempts to get home being futile (The Odyssey 11.188-191). Anticlea tells him that as she was longing for him for so long that death overtook her. Odysseus then shows another obstacle in “and I, my mind in turmoil, how I longed to embrace my mother’s spirit, dead as she was” (11.233-234). Odysseus father, Laertes, also continuously longs for him in poverty. She tells him how sad Penelope is that he is lost. Odysseus
Instead of providing a means for life to flourish, rivers in Odyssey further hardship and provide passage to death. When Odysseus is faced with a journey to Hades’ house, he must travel a branch of the water of Styx to complete his mission. The River Styx ferries souls of the dead to the Underworld, symbolizing an ending to life and a passage to death. In this situation the River hinders Odysseus’s homecoming as it marks another hazardous journey, emphasized by how the dead react to Odysseus’s presence in the Underworld: “Not even you can ever top this, this bold foray into Hades”, since so few living beings accomplish the feat (Od 11: 493-4). Odysseus’s “bold foray into Hades” includes “[crossing] many rivers, great bodies of water, nightmarish streams”, all various forms of rivers ultimately hampering Odysseus’s nostos (Od 11: 155-6). The abundance of rivers and their impedance on Odysseus’s journey contrasts the notion that rivers encourage purification and beneficial transitions. Odysseus becomes more fatigued when dealing with the delaying rivers, never transformed or enlightened, their purposes being to setback his
The vision of the underworld portrayed in Dante’s Inferno and The Odyssey share many similarities. Both Dante and Odysseus confidently travel to the underworld because a woman, with whom they have had an intimate instructs them to. In The Odyssey, Circe instructs Odysseus to “make [his] own wa...
In the Greek myth, Orpheus has to travel through the five rivers of Hades (Phlegethon, Acheron, Lethe, Styx, and Cocytus) to retrieve Eurydice from the overseer of the underworld, Hades. In Black Orpheus, Orpheus does not travel through the actual rivers, but in my opinion, symbolic representations of them. The obstacles that Orpheus faces while trying to find Eurydice, could possibly be the representation of the rivers.