Obstacles In The Odyssey

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Everybody faces trials trying to fulfill their goals however overcoming the trials we face is similar to a hero’s journey. In the odyssey, Odysseus’s ambition is to finally go home to be with his wife and son in Ithaca. The obstacles Odysseus’s faces are overcome by his excellence in physical, emotional and intellectual characteristics. My goal in high school was to graduate in the top ten percent of my class. We all want to accomplish our goals especially since we work endlessly to achieve them by emotional and intellectual attributions.
Odysseus never waiver from his goal to be with his family even at his lowest point he long for them. The goddess Calypso offered him immortality to stay with her but Odysseus was focused on his family. In …show more content…

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