Odysseus is Like Many Things Today! In the epic poem The Odyssey was written by Homer, which was a poet that is retelling the story of Odysseus’ journey, it was translated by Robert Fitzgerald. The Odyssey is about many difficult things odysseus had to go through to get back home to his wife and son. Odysseus won the Trojan war and is known as a king to Ithaca which is where he live. The Odyssey is relevant to today because Odysseus is like soldier, a police, he has also had things happen to him and make them change directions just like people today, and how many people today are getting divorced, he is strong and determined to finish his job and get back home to Ithaca. One way that the stories of Odysseus is relevant today is because his story is about what he had to go through to get home. Today there are soldiers that have to fight for their life to get home like Odysseus did but just in different ways. “Odysseus’ arrow hit him under the chin and punched up to the feathers through his throat”(Homer 14-15). They don’t always like what they have to do but they have to do it because …show more content…
So Odysseus had many things that turned his life around and made it go different than he planned.”’Sirens will sing his mind away’” (Homer 9). “One is a sharp mountain piercing the sky” (Homer 31-32). Odysseus either had to listen to the Sirens or go through the sharp mountains to get home, and he had to pick one or the other. Today in life a lot of people have things that happen to them, like some people from fighting get PTSD and some people get paralyzed, and that makes them change directions and make then go somewhere they never would have thought to go. In this case of Odysseus having to go all around the islands just to get home changed his life also because he missed 17-years of his son’s life that he will never get