Question

can someone help me write a summary

Answer 1

1. Draft the summary for The Odyssey Part 1, The Odyssey Part 2, The Odyssey Part 3, or Orpheus and Eurydice. Remember to use your own words and to focus only on important information.

2. Refer to the strategies on pp. 294–297 in The Essential Guide to Language, Writing, & Literature to construct powerful paragraphs for your summary. Take note of the specific tips about writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. Working on the draft you completed earlier, revise and edit the summary for the use of the “literary present” tense and for chronological order. Make sure that sentences are clear, concise, and varied in structure.

Answer 2

No, sorry

Answer 3

i'll fail English if i don't do this

Answer 4

I can try. Care to brief me on the whole idea, and/or how you want to go about it?

Answer 5

anything

Answer 6

That's not the best approach. I'll help you. But for that, you have to be willing to. Do I have you on this?

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

Alright, now let's first talk about Odyssey. Is it the Homeric piece, that you require?

Answer 9

i dont know

Answer 10

Okay... is it a greek ish story? I mean, if you have a basic idea of what it is... because there are a few more pieces which more or less refer to the same.

Answer 11

yes its a greek story

Answer 12

Great, then we're certain that it's Homeric. Alright, you do know the basic theme of the story, right?

Answer 13

yes

Answer 14

The Poem basically narrates Homer's journey home after the battle of Troy. Now, we can take a second worthy pause and see what exactly was his role in the Trojan Battle.

Answer 15

ok

Answer 16

at one level, it narrates a hero's faith, his want of going home to his wife, Penelope and the son he had. He fought bravely in Trojan wars. He was Helen's older suitor and had given an oath to bring Helen back to her husband.

Answer 17

And by the way, the Trojan horse is attributed to his brains, y'know.

Answer 18

Anyway, we're getting off beat now.
A hero, he decided to go back to the land that is his kingdom, to see his wife and son, be with them again... Now, every man wants that, as you might hear in a Terence McKenna lecture, "everyone wants to go home and be with their wives and kids, and y'know watch the game!"

Now, 10 years the battle goes, and everyone thinks he is dead.

Answer 19

Stop. Odysseus is protected by Athena, the Goddess of war, often attributed to his smart.
Right now, he is not aware that 108 boistrous men are being fed off his wealth, while luring his ever faithful wife.

Does this strike to you as odd?

Answer 20

i guess

Answer 21

Put yourself in his shoes. You're the most celebrated war hero, though you're short, but your skill makes up for it, your wife's lovely, and faithful. Yet people think you are dead...

What exactly is the irony here? Take your time. We're discussing it.

Answer 22

And for the record, there's a God whom you've outsmarted, and thus hates you. *cough cough* Poedion.

Answer 23

Alright I'll take that you're irresponsive that way.

Now, Athena here, goes to her husband Zeus (king of Gods, mind you, though he hates her, but that's a different story, let's say, they're "happily" married), she makes multiple disguises to save Odysseus.

In those days journey was mainly by the seas, and the seas belonged to Poseidon. *No good*

Rings bells?