Odyssey Reflection Paper

Everyone is strong in their individual ways. In Homer’s the Odyssey, the main characters, Odysseys and Penelope, go through trials and have their own way of dealing with them. When I mentioned everyone that includes myself. I use my strengths to overcome challenges just like Odysseys and Penelope. With my strengths of empathy, adaptability, and positivity, I work through problems and trials that stand in my way, similarly Odysseys and Penelope has similar and different ways of dealing with their obstacles. Empathy is one of my top strengths and has helped me through many tough times in my life. One of those ways is by putting myself into someone else’s shoes. I knew a girl named Jenna, she was one of the “popular” kids, never coming close

Almost everyone knows the glass half full and half empty trick. If you think the glass is half full than your optimistic and if you see it half emptily than your pessimistic. But what if I say the glass is completely full, what would that mean? I believe the glass is half full of water and half full of air, both essential to life. Am I overly optimistic, extremely positive or out an of the box thinker? Either way I see nothing extremely bad about this strength. For example, one day, me and my mother were in her small red car stopped at an intersection on our way to my schools buss stop. I looked down and saw an extremely small baby rabbit on the sidewalk. One of the cutest creatures I had ever seen. My mother agreed. Suddenly, a crow swooped down and cared the small animal away. My mother was furious with the crow, saying how much she hated crows. I was upset that the baby was killed, but told my mom that it was the circle of life. Experience helped me understand nature and the world around me. Another way positivity helps me is by lifting me up when times get tough. There have been many deaths, both close family and friends, but just being able to meet these people is a gift in itself. Millons of people die every day, I am happy that I got to be apart of those peoples lives. I was able to make them smile and laugh and remembering those times helps me to try and help others smile and laugh because one day they

Even though many suitors were nagging and pushing her to get married because they were sure Odysseus was long gone. Because none of the suitors would listen to Penelope she devised a plan to keep the suitors at bay. she told them, “Young men, my suitors now that the great Odysseus has perished, wait, though you are eager to marry me, until I finish this web, so that my weaving will not be useless and wasted. This is a shroud for the hero Laertes, for when the destructive doom of death, which lays men low shall take him, lest any Achaian woman in this neighborhood hold it against me that a man of many conquests lies with no sheet to wind him.” ( ) She would weave a shroud for her father in law, Leartes and then when it was complete she would announce who she would marry. At least this was what she told the suitors. little did they know Penelope was weaving the thread by day and unraveling the thread at night. She came up with this plan so she did not have to marry anyone so she could stay loyal to Odysseus. Even after 20 years of waiting she still believed her believed Odysseus was coming