In this compelling story, “the Odyssey,” I believe that it is an excellent choice for young ninth graders to read. Not only because of the choice of the school requirement but because it really has that impact of showing people how they prefer to see someone they’d admire but don’t really know them as they say. This story can also be vague but little by little it's understandable. Some of my reasons to this would be like our class for example, they would tell us to read certain parts and then we would discuss it and “graffiti” our packets of the reading and get to clarify the passage a bit more if some people were stuck and didn't understand it. We would also get in small groups to do small projects on what passage we’ve read and others would have different ones and we'd explain to them so we could all get the same meaning of the passage. Also, I really feel like the doing of watching the actual movie in small clips helped many (especially me) understand the story a bit more because we would also take note on what was seen and get a clear view …show more content…
Hubris was very cocky as a hero because many looked up to him. He usually never gave credit to all the help of his men but he was very precise on what choices he’d take. For example, his men stabbing Poseidon's eye, many didn't agree with his choice but at the same time they had no other way to get out. Hubris was very brave in which was also one of the reasons he was cocky and people looked up to him. By this many readers can understand that their “somewhat” heroes aren’t the exact way they describe themselves as. In which is why people shouldn’t directly think of them the way they were described but by the way they actually know them. People can be so blind without knowing the actual truth in which can also be one of the reasons why the people of Hubris always followed