Odysseus Journey Summary

After serving ten years in the great Trojan War, Odysseus, the son Laertes, was finally able to start his long journey towards home. He arrives at Phaeacia and meets Alcinous. Alcinous offers Odysseus a ship for his travels but asks Odysseus to tell him of his adventures. He agrees and now he is off to start his eventful travels towards home in the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca. As Odysseus starts his quest of getting home the wind starts to pick up. The powerful wind carried him west from Troy and brought him to Ismarus. Odysseus totally destroyed that place and killed the men who fought and enslaved the women to make division, equal shares to all, but he originally told his me “Back, and quickly! Out to sea again!” His men unfortunately did
He knows that they are in real bad trouble. They are greatly outnumbered by the fighters. They did not give up though, they fought it out. From morning till noon, they held out, even severely outnumbered. But when the sun passed, one by one, Odysseus’s men gave way. They were left with very few men at the end of the death scene. They mourned the deaths of their crewmen and friends. Before they continued on their journey homeward, some shipmates had a little memorial by raising a cry, three times, for each of the lost men killed in the battle. I’m thinkin’ that this is one heck of a way to start a journey towards home. You can tell that this isn’t gonna be an easy ride for Odysseus and his men. Obviously his men do not like to be obedient, they basically caused the whole disaster, other than the wind throwing them off route. They caused the mass murder of crewmen because they couldn’t follow certain orders. Simple ones at that! The relationship between Odysseus and his men isn’t really that stable at all, maybe he could’ve found better men to assist him in his adventures? At least they put
The sails got super tore up in the crazy wind. Odysseus and his men knew that if they didn’t find the nearest shelter to take cover in, they would pay the price in death. After three days they were finally able to get back out in the sea. They had a good chance in making it to their destination but that didn’t happen. For nine days they drifted on the sea before coming across dangerous high winds. On the tenth day they came to the coastline of the Lotus-Eaters. Odysseus sent out two of his best men to go learn what race of men the land had sustained, but as his men do best, didn’t follow orders. They followed right along with the lotus-eaters. They wanted no harm towards his men but getting caught up with them was not good. The lotus-eaters offered some sweet lotus to his men and they accepted, causing them to never think about going back ever. It made the men want to stay there forever. Forgetting their homeland, and most of their life. Odysseus had to do something right, so he gathered his men and drove them back to the ship. They did not go willingly, they wailed the whole time. He tied them up and put them on the ship, he warned the others saying, “no one taste the Lotus, or you lose your hope of home.” . After this mishap, they once again set sail out into the sea again. I think this goes to show that Odysseus cares about his men and wants to have them make it home as well as