Odysseus Research Paper

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Compare and contrast

Exploration is a very risky job that is challenging to do. This is because they are going to unknown places. But besides the risk, the rewards are good, like becoming a famous explorer or getting a prize. In the selection of “ To the top of the Everest ” and “Tales from the Odyssey” the risk and the rewards are what impulse the characters to still in their travel: In”To the top of the Everest” Samantha Larson and his dad climb the Everest for being the first person to climb Everest while in “Tales from the Odyssey” Odysseus and his crew are in a boat which is in a storm in Greek sea. But they didn't stop because they were returning from the Trojan war to their homes.

In the text of the “Tales of the Odysseys” Odsysseus and his crew face many challenges in their journey. Odysseus and his crew were returning to their home in Ithaka, but a storm delayed them. So in solution to that, Odysseus and his crew stop on an island to get resources to skip on his journey, but some of the island natives offer them some strange flowers that make a couple of crew members forget about their lives and want to stay. But no matter how much, Odysseus tries and gives orders to the soldiers who ate the flower. They do not listen to him, so they abandon them on the island.
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But again they ran out of supplies and had to make another stop on another island where they killed a hundred goats and discovered a cave with cheese. Odysseus in gratitud stays to wait for the person who made the cheese for him but when the owner of the cave arrives Odysseus and his crew were scared to death because the owner of the cave was a Cyclops. Luckily, they managed to escape leaving the cyclops blind with a torch in his eye but despite this, several crew members did not survive the