Response To The Odyssey

Imagine having a full time job, having to run a house, and take care of your kids all by yourself. All the presure is on you. Don’t forget to take your kids to school, remember to buy the groceries after work, remember to pick up the kids at 2pm and don’t be late. All these chores taunting you throughout the day because you want so badly for your kids to grow up normal and have the things that their friends have. All these chores that seem so easy only if you had a partner to share them with but the sad part is you don’t. In Homers epic poem, The Odessey, a mother and her child had an absence of a husband and father for 20 years due to the Trojan war and many incidents after. Being the king of Ithica, Odysseus has lots of responsibilities to