Odysseus's Identity In The Odyssey

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I am a fourteen-year-old, 9th grader in high school. Every day, I come to school seeking individuality that helps form my identity, contemplating ways to improve as a person, searching for myself, and I feel as if this can easily relate to Odysseus' story in Homer's "The Odyssey." Odysseus is constantly traveling and searching for his identity. However, incidents that have occurred to Odysseus were out of his control are what shaped him. The men Odysseus traveled with also shaped his identity, therefore, I believe identity is effected by both yourself and society.

An example of how society can affect your identity is in Book 10, when Odysseus and his men land on the island of Aeolus. Once they arrive, Aeolus, the King of the Winds,

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