Compare And Contrast Tris And Odysseus

How would you feel like if you if were forced to take a test that decided your whole future. Or decided if you stay with your family or leave them forever. The characters Tris and Odysseus are very similar and in many ways. Tris lives at home with her brother, mother and father. Odysseus lives at home with his wife and son. In my essay I will be telling you how the heroes are alike and in one way that they are different.

When Beatrice leaves her family to be with her new friends and soon to be family she doesn't realize what choice she just made. She now has to go through hard, intense, training that she is very scared for, because she doesn't know what to expect. Odysseus is the same way he has to say goodbye to his family and then has to go on this unknown journey that would last two decades. They both have to leave their family but also be away from them for a very long time.

On this very long journey they both have to face things that might make them regret making the decision to leave their families. Beatrice is facing hard times with the training and homesickness. She is also facing hard times with the big stuff jumping train to train and off
She notices that neither of her parents were home and that scares her. She looks outside and see’s that the city that they live in was attacked and under invasion. Then she figures out that her mom was killed during the war. Odysseus is the opposite way he goes and actually returns home to his family. He is home but no one knows because he is disguised as an old beggar. The only one who finds out is his wife only because of the scar on his ankle. She then tells the beggars that the only way she will marry one of them is if they string a bow and shoot a bow through 12 axes. She only did that because she knew it was odysseus would win. These two are different in this part but only because of what happens to tris’s