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The Odyssey Summary

Kalin Johnson A-3

At the beginning of the book Muse the poet helps homer tell the poem of Odysseus. Any ways Telemachus is growing tired of not seeing his father Odysseus so he sets sail on this huge journey to find his dad while telemachus is gone a bunch of suitors prepare to win penelopes heart telemachus's mother. Telemachus journied to several places beginning with nesters palace to try and get nesters son to go on his jouries with him but nester refuses but his son persuades him to let him go but first they feast in this book they have over ten trillion billion quadrillion feasts. And they set off they go through many trials when on there boats. Odysseus travels through calypsos island and he becomes her love3r then after ten years he leaves to the river of the souls or something like that and and he puts lambs blood in a pit he dug and talks to his dead crew mate and he tells him that he need to be burried properly and later they have to survive many storms but on odyyseuss side towards the end he travels to the land of the cyclops and eat of the suns cattle and the cyclopse captures them and they kill him then poseiden gets very mad because it was his son that was killed and soon after that they have to face skylla the six headed monster skylla eats a person for every boat then passes then they have to go to ithica and odysseus has to be disguised as a pig farmer and a peaseant he goes to the house of the suitors and fights them athena giving him power to destroy his enemies fight wise the he enters a compatition that penelope has put up for a new husband and he has to string a bow and and shoot it through ten axes then he kills a suitore that was egging him on then he goes to penelope and tells him that he is odysseus and they live happily ever after.