Saturday, May 10, 2014

The Hero has won the Freedom to Live

     As mentioned earlier, Athena disguised Odysseus as a beggar he could figure out who to trust, and who not to trust. Odysseus finds Telemachus and tells him that he's his father.  Odysseus tells his son to go take the suitors weapons and take them somewhere else, so that they can't defend themselves when Odysseus kills them. Antonius treats Odysseus badly as a beggar, and Penelope asks to speak with him. He tells her that some time tomorrow Odysseus will return home. To by Odysseus time, Penelope tells the suitors that who ever can string Odysseus' bow, and shoot an arrow through twelve axe handles can marry her. None of the suitors are able to string the bow, and Odysseus, the beggar, asks if he can try. Odysseus completes the challenge and then kills Antonius. The suitors now know that it's Odysseus, and they plead for their lives, telling him they will give them all their money if he spares them. Odysseus refuses their money and the suitors begin fighting for their lives with any weapons that they had carried with them. Telemachus brings Odysseus armor, and he fights along side him. Athena, Zeus, Eumaeus, and a faithful herdsman, also fight with Odysseus. All of them are clothed in full armor, and they kill all the suitors. They dead suitors are left in a pile, and Odysseus takes back his home and wife.         
     One thing I do to make sure I'm free to become the person I want to become is being honest. There was one time when I was at a friends house for a sleep over. That night her aunt and uncle let her take in a cat from off the street. The only thing we had to do was let it outside before it used the bathroom in the house. My friend had given the cat milk earlier, in which gives cats diarrhea (she didn't know that). In the late hours of the night, we were watching a movie when we smelled something terrible. We went to check it out and found out that the cat had diarrhea on a small tent like toy of my friend's aunt's kids. We took the cat and the tent outside. My friend wanted to throw the tent away to hide the evidence, but I knew that was dishonest and that it wouldn't be nice to throw away some one's toy. I convinced her to just wash it off and let it try out so the kids could  use it later. Honesty is a talent that I have. I hate being dishonest, and I wouldn't want to lie to anyone.

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