First of all, I am so happy to have finished the Odyssey! It was a great book, but at some parts, I really hated it. How this story was laid out reminded me of how my novel was laid out. At the very end was when the story began to really start, and then there was a way that it was ended, maybe not the best, but an ending none the less. Looking back, I can see the poetic aspect of it, but while I was reading, it didn't seem like a poem at all.
What I thought about this section was that it was the second best of all the ones we read. There was action when Ulysses, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and someone else (I forgot his name) are fighting against the suitors. But what I didn't like was that it happened so quickly. Other things take a long time to happen and it's such a short amount of time. This takes all night and lasts only a page or two. I didn't like that when Ulysses was talking to his father, that he lied to him. He is already home, why can't he just tell his father what really happened? Now when I think about it, there was a lot of lying during this time and so when people said, 'tell me, and tell me true', they wanted the real truth, not some lie that had been created. I was also thinking about how Minerva was putting thoughts into peoples heads, putting them to sleep, etc. How would you know that what you are doing was really you doing it? If the gods could control you, would it really be your life? Or would it be theirs in a different body? Would you be able to resist some of the things they do to you? Just wondering.
Overall, I think that this was a good read. There were a lot of errors in spelling and punctuation, funny perspective switches, and some things that I found not to make sense. I also found that as I got closer to the end, it was easier to read and to understand. I didn't write as much in the margins as I did in the beginning, not that anyone would really care.
This is my last post for the Odyssey!!! YAY!
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