Austin Godwin
Ms. Ewald
Eng. 1 H
22 September 2017
Odysseus Is A Hero
How would you define the word hero? Would it be someone with supernatural powers? Or would it just be an ordinary person that’s brave? Odysseus is a hero. He is a hero because he is brave, loyal to his family, and he is also a great leader. A hero should be someone that is a leader in wherever they go, and whatever they do. People look up to heros. We’ve all been that one kid, dressing up as spiderman, or superman. It was because we looked up to them. The same way the Greeks looked up to Odysseus in the Trojan War.
Odysseus had a huge role in the Trojan War. Odysseus is not just a hero. Odysseus is a natural born leader. In the Trojan war, the trojans protected the fortified city of Troy. Odysseus used his intelligence to make a plan to infiltrate the city of Troy. Odysseus develops a plan for greatness. The greeks agree with odysseus’ plan to build a giant wooden horse so they can infiltrate the fortified city of troy. They left one man out of the wooden horse to act like a traitor. The greek “Traitor” tells them that the Greeks left the wooden horse, and they should take it in so they can use it to worship the gods. They celebreated
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In one instance he tricked the cyclops Polyphemus by telling him that his name was “nobody” and then he disguised his men as sheep so that Polyphemus would unwittingly let them out of his cave. He kept his men together for most of the story by earning loyalty and devotion. Even in the face of dangers such as scylla and circle, the men stick with odysseus because he is a leader. And they know that if they die, they’d rather die by his side than anyone else's. At the end of the story he tricks the suitors by doing what no other man can do. String his bow. In so doing, he has given himself the weapon with which to defeat the suitors and taken them by