Choices That Changed Odysseus In Homer's The Odyssey

Journey When I was in sixth grade I started playing the cello with very little experience, and with the development I have gone through the past three years has not just made me a better cello player. That experience gave work ethics, and the values of hard work skills to help me through life. Life is like a huge adventure, and it’s the journey that makes the destination worth it. Furthermore, as people move through life they go through a frustrating struggle of attempting to reach a goal, and that destination is nothing without the journey. To start off, as we move through life the choices we make molded us into an individual. The reading The Odyssey is based on many choices that changed Odysseus. As Odysseus tells his story of his journey, and how choices made by him and his men affected him he expresses the immense pain this adventure caused him. The text author states “But not by will nor valor could he save them, for their own recklessness destroyed them all-children and fools, they killed and feasted on the cattle of Lord Helios, the Sun” (Homer 10). Odysseus’s men made the choice to kill and eat the cattle of the sun god in which they payed their lives for. The choice they made changed them and cost them everything

In the poem “Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy make it clear to make the journey one to remember. The author says many time keep Ithaka in mind, but take your time on the voyage. In light of this, text makes clear “Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you would have not set out. She has nothing left to give you now” (Cavafy 32-35). In the poem Ithaka was developed as a person, and once they reach her all they have is the memory of the voyage. Once anyone reaches their goal all they are gifted with is the joy of success, and the enlightenment of how they got