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Analysis Of Tales From The Odyssey: To The Top Of Everest, By Samantha Larson

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Many expeditions lead to discoveries and rewards, but they also are synonyms of risks and dangers. The story after the Horse of Troy is narrated in Tales From The Odyssey. In To The Top Of Everest, the expedition of a young woman and her team climbed the tallest mountain in the world. This text is a discussion of which of the previous texts best represents the risks and rewards of exploration. Which one, Tales From The Odyssey, by Mary Pope Osborne, or To The Top Of The Everest, by Samantha Larson? First, let’s start with the risks people can or experienced. In my opinion, the text that best symbolizes the risk for people on a journey is To The Top Of Everest. This is because Samantha writes about falling, which can be dangerous. She also said there was a great cold. On the other hand, the text written by Mary talks about a hard storm Odysseus, the main character, and his crew experienced. There were still some other …show more content…

I think the text of climbing the Everest represents the risks of expedition better since the text of what happened after the events of the Horse of Troy tells of some unbelievable risks that we know can’t ever happen in real life. Previously, I told climbers that to the top of the Everest could fall. They could fall on crevasses, that are nothing less and nothing more than a profound break in the glaciers. Cold temperatures may cause hypothermia, because, well, extremely cold temperatures can cause hypothermia, which is a hazard because the brain can’t think correctly and the person that goes through this may not respond to stop it. Going to Tales From The Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew went across a hard tempest that could drown them. But the storm wasn’t the only risk, there were some flowers that the villagers of an island they arrived at, offered them, those flowers made people forget everything, at the end of the story, Odysseus and some men found a

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