My Experience With Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

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When I was six years old, my dad constructed me a wooden, colossal, playhouse, it was like an acropolis that rocketed to the sky. He also attached a bright, yellow slide to it and a green swing set, I would spend every second in it. Therefore, when summer rolled around and we got a pool; my dad decided to lift the slide and instead of having it go straight down into the grass, it went into the pool. I was so euphoric and ready to slide my summer days away. However, one afternoon I was in the pool with my brother and I have never put my head under water before. Therefore, I put on my goggles and started swimming underwater; to my dismay and terror I haphazardly swam under the small section between the edge of the pool and the bottom of the slide. I was trapped under there and losing breath, I could not breathe and felt …show more content…
After the battle, Odysseus and his team escape under the flock of sheep, by grasping their stomachs. All in all, my experience and the one in the Odyssey are not very similar at a first glance; however, digging deeper there are many similarities. We were both in death defying situations, I could have been suffocated and Odysseus could have been eaten by a hideous monster. Although one seems more terrifying than the other, Odysseus’ experience is close enough to the fear caused by my traumatic event. Moreover, we also had narrow escapes at the last minute, simply because of a small space. This is shown in the Odyssey when Odysseus used the cyclops’ weakness, his intelligence against him; moreover in my situation I found the slide’s weakness a small space between the cramped pool and a bright yellow slide. Finally I’ve learned that, at times things may seem like you’re trapped and that you are losing a hard battle, keep persevering because there is still a small space of safety to break

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