Homer's the Oydssey

In Homer’s epic The Odyssey, Homer tells the story of a man named Odysseus who travels back to his home after countless years of being separated from his family. Odysseus, the main character, was very helpful in attacking Troy’s citadel during the Trojan War. After the war ended, Kalypso, a nymph, held Odysseus captive on her island for almost eight years. However, he has not been able to escape because there are no ships, men, or islands nearby and Poseidon, the god of the sea, despises him. Zeus and the other gods and goddesses assemble to decide whether to bring Odysseus back; as a result, they send a message to Kalypso about summoning Odysseus to come home. Both Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, and his wife grieve over his absence, and they worry whether he is alive or not. Telemachus, who has lived the majority of his life without his father, questions about his father. To travel to different places and find out more about his father was Athena’s counsel for him; in fact, Telemachus discovers that his father is alive. The men, who are the kings of the islands that Telemachus visits, tell Telemachus stories of his father from the war. Meanwhile, suitors settle in Odysseus’ palace so they can marry Penelope and arrange a plan to murder Telemachus as soon as he returns. Penelope endures the hardships of being without Odysseus and does not want to marry a suitor.
On the island of Ogygia, which belongs to Kalypso, the mourning Odysseus wishes to travel back home. However, since there are no ships or men nearby, he has no way to go back to his family. The pitiless Kalypso, a beautiful nymph who is in love with Odysseus, just wants to love Odysseus and make him immortal. Odysseus goes to sleep with Kalypso every night by force, although he weeps on the shore by the rocks every day. The message that Hermes sends from Zeus to Kalypso tells her to send Odysseus home. What Odysseus needs is a raft so that he can travel to Scheria, so Kalypso shows Odysseus where to cut down trees even though she does not want him to leave. Once Odysseus departs from Ogygia to Scheria, Poseidon, who is enraged with him because he blinded his son, sends a storm. Eventually, after much difficulty, Odysseus makes his way to Scheria. Phaiakians are the people of Scheria whom Odysseus asks for help. Odysseus needs their help because they are acknowledged for their incredibly fast ships. He can only travel back to his home in Ithaka if he has a fast ship for the long journey. There is a river and two bushes beside it, which is where Odysseus falls asleep after his experience with Poseidon. After waking up, he meets a woman named Nausikaa, who is the daughter of the king of Scheria. She gives Odysseus directions to the city and her palace so he can converse with her parents about coming home. Nausikaa advises Odysseus to walk across the threshold and enter the house. There, he will see her parents, and he should walk past the father and go to her mother first to clasp her knees. This displays a sign of respect, which makes the parents like him. After he did this, the king, Antinoos, likes Odysseus and assembles a meeting with all the men for him. They come to a decision that they will give him a ship; however, there is a prophecy. The prophecy declares that one day, Poseidon will be angry with them and destroy their city because they will send a man, who he does not like, back home. The story carries on with Odysseus explaining to Antinoos who he is and what adventures he has been on. In conclusion, from what I have read so far, Odysseus is a very resourceful man because he has found his way out of risky situations. Odysseus has experienced adventures to different places that he did not intend on going to. Since he has been on Kalypso’s island for many years, he was thrilled to hear that he can return to his homeland. After being away for so long from his family, he is so determined to go home that he does not care what troubles he encounters. Perhaps the only difficulty he has left to come across is Poseidon.