As author Edward Dunedin once said, “Don't give up in times of difficulty. Persevere on as there will be an end to these.” Dunedin’s words are similar to Odysseus’ from the Odyssey and Salak’s from the cruelest journey actions. Both authors of these stories use detail to convey that people embark upon quests to reach a certain destination and that they learn some goals take incredible perseverance.
In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is on his way home to Ithaca. But he gets side tracked by a cyclops and gets trapped. He had to persevere to escape. Odysseus came up with a plan. He hid his men underneath the bodies of sheep and attacked the cyclops so that he could not see. When the cyclops asked who he was, Odysseus yelled “nohbody!” The cyclops had cried for help, and someone asked who hurt him. He replied, “Nohbody, Nohbody’s tricked me, Nohbody’s ruined me.” So they thought no one had hurt him because Odysseus said that his name was Nohbody. Instead of complaining or thinking that they were gonna die, Odysseus persevere through and came up with a clever plan. Although Salak was not trying to escape, she did persevere in another way.…show more content… Salak wanted to take the challenge. And She did, but along the way her “right arm [was] lurch[ing] from a ripped muscle.” But that didn't stop her, she continued on. When she had finally reached the last stretch of the river she had not eaten in 24 hours. But Salak could see Timbuktu and she “paddled] straight toward it, ignoring the pain in [her] body and [her] raging headache. Kira Salak persevere on and did not give up despite the challenges she had (come across) (to
