Odysseus; hero of modern times.

To me Odysseus is a hero today just as much as he would be back in the day as well. He lies quite frequently, but this can easily be pardoned with the fact that secrecy is the perfect shadow a hero can hide in. Odysseus needs to be unknown to most of the people he comes across in his journey home and plot to kill the suitors. Athena changes the godlike Odysseus to look like an old begger, a very nice cover. Odysseus then crafts a short tale of his life to tell anyone who asks of his past and gain pity from them as well. From being a slave in Egypt to seeing Odysseus in Crete Odysseus story is nothing but a big fat lie, but it acheives his task none the less. If Odysseus hadn't been able to lie, he would not have been able to come back to Ithica to surprise the suitors. Heros now more then ever need to lie about themselves and change themselves to stay hidden and secret. Otherwise the world would squash them in the open and the hero would be useless.

Some heros have no negative characteristics. Most do have them. Odysseus' negative traits are ones that can be overlooked. People love colorful hero's and Odysseus is just that. Some people may say hes self centered and weak for having relations with other women while his wife stays true back at home. These traits can be trumped with his covered curiosity. Odysseus wants to hear the Sirens sing. Such temptation from the voices lures many to their deaths. Odysseus still wants to hear them sing, so he has his crew tie him and and stick wax in their ears so no one can or will want to do anything stupid. Using a smart plan Odysseus gets to do what he wants. If done the right way a person can do most anything.

Life in the fast lane.

For my outside reading this week I decided to read a poem. Finding it hard to let my mind wonder free at all poetry seemed like a good chioce. I searched a few different poetry cites mostly looking at "Poem of the Month." I finally came across a poem I really liked. I also found it significant to our new and busy lives. It's call "Barking" by Jim Harrison. The poem talks about how night and day life was and how fast it went by. How he was "On a short chain" (11) but "Now there's no chain at all" (12). This is significant to me today because I can see my life going into high gear and the days are already sliding by at break neck speed. I think they are for a lot of us. The poem talks about how life went into this mode and got away from the one living it. I recently turned 16. Unlike most kids I wasn't very happy about it. I didn't want to watch my childhood go, I didn't feel like I had lived enough of it, like it had slipped by. Now that the bindings of childhood are gone, I am becoming an individual. There are no chains on me now. They've began releasing from all of us. We're growing and up and becoming independant. I take the main theme of this poem is to live your life because it goes by fast. I'm living my own life that way as we speak. I think you, dear reader, should read this poem and see how it strikes you. Maybe you'll see it like I do and it'll help you live a happier life. Maybe not. I love poems about life, and this is a good example of that.


Harrison, Jim. "Barking". Poetry. Poetry Foundation. 18 Sept 2008. http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0908/poem_182141.html

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The Year is Here! (I Rhymed!)

This is EE 10... Wow. I'm finally in highschool. Well I guess we're amping it up with these blogs for ELA outside reading. We have to read in for class, do papers for class, and read outside class. A tall task. This webpage is my blog in which I shall be posting my comments on my outside reading. I wonder what it is this week...? Well I guess you'll have to go to my blog to find out. Or are you already here... I can't say... I've never had a blog like this until now. How ironic that it is for school purposes. I think I used ironic properly... if not... Oh I hope I used it properly... Either way... Well I suppose I better go learn how to use this.