The Role Of Motivation In The Odyssey

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My family motivates me to think before I speak, so I don't accidentally say something I don't mean. An example of this would be when I was younger I would just say the first thing that came to mind and wouldn’t think about the consequences of my actions and I would end up making other kids cry or tell me. I got in trouble a lot during this time and my parents were called to the school to talk about me. So after scolding me for years, I finally realized that I should be more conscious of what I say. In The Odyssey, Odysseus, the main character, realizes that his actions are causing a lot of his men to die because he wasn’t thinking before acting. At the end of the story, he is finally more conscious of how he speaks and what he does to not make

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