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The Odyssey As A Tragic Hero In Homer's Odyssey

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I saw a boat pull up on shore. They had came from the land of Aeolis. They had opened a bag of air and it blew them onto my island. There was a crew of men that got off of the boat. One man named Eurylicas was curious and started to look around. He started to walk around snooping in everything that he could. He told the other men that they need to look around to. They all began to look around, but they didn’t notice me standing in the woods. The crew were further and further back on my island. Yet, they didn’t know where my house was. All of them were just so curious that they wouldn’t stop. They had been warned already. Odysseus told them to be very careful on the island. All I wanted to do was have them in my house. I stayed out of sight until I could get away without them noticing that there was someone else on the island. …show more content…

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