Symbolism In The Odyssey

Introduction: How'd He Do That?
Recognizing the memory, symbol, and pattern of literature is what separates a professional reader from the rest of the crowd. Memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature by allowing the reader to think deeper into the piece of work. For example, in the book, it states that professors when they read they are "cursed with memory." The book continues to say that they are constantly looking for correspondences and corollaries. In addition to memory, when one reads they should think symbolically. "Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise." Professional readers always ask, Is this a metaphor? Is this an analogy? What does the thing over there signify? They have to see

On the surface, the main character goes out on this journey to obtain a goal, however in nearly all cases the true reason to go out on the quest is for self-knowledge. I will use the Odyssey as a classic example of a quest. Odysseus is stranded out at sea after the epic victory at Troy and yearns to return home to his beloved kingdom in Ithaca, where his wife and son believe he is dead. Even in that very vague plot overview you can already see that Odysseus is the quester, the place to go is his home in Ithaca, the reason to go there is to see his wife and son and to stop the suitors from courting his wife, his challenges and trials en route are range from being trapped on an island with the nymph Calypso to fighting the Cyclops Polyphemus. In this case, the real reason to go home is the stated reason to go there in the first place; and that is simply to return home after ten years to his wife and son, and to kill all the suitors.

Chapter 2-- Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion
In the book it describes a meal alone as plain and uninteresting. However, it is the plot that makes the act of communion more intriguing in the novel. For example, in chapter one of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway pays a visit to his cousin Daisy's house for dinner. Daisy and her husband Tom are present,

Many of the Christian references such as, the priest who died in the house, the titles of the books that he left behind, and the old woman who collects stamps for devout reasons, all add to the allure of the present of God. The more elusive biblical allusions that Foster didn’t mention includes the wild garden with the apple tree. This obviously refers to the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. The reference of the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden carries throughout the short story, making the story much easier to comprehend. Similar to Adam, the young boy begins to focus all his energy towards the girl that he never really talks to. When she finally speaks to him, her only intention is to try and get him to get her something from the bazaar. After this, he withdraws from everything besides this girl. He no longer tries in school and doesn’t think about God and what is right. He has been deceived into thinking that this girl is all that matters. He goes to this bazaar, and almost makes the same kind of mistake that Adam and Eve did. He is about to buy something, but he looks at these two great jars and decides that he doesn’t need to buy anything. As for the two great jars I think that they represent guardian angels, in the sense that they protected him from doing wrong. They show him the true intentions of the girl. They give