Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden free write
I had heard about Osama getting killed while I was playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on my Xbox (what irony). My dad had told me that something big was on the news and that I should go up and see. When I saw it I was kind of in disbelief. When I saw that it was in fact true, then I thought that it was weird that he was killed in a mansion next to a military base just outside the Pakistani capital. I had always imagined that he was being hidden by most of the middle east countries in a cave somewhere. I also always imagined that he would die somewhere in a cave from special forces. Then I got really worried because Al-Qaeda probably won’t let this go without some kind of retaliation. I mean, even if Osama wasn’t the true leader of them, he was the face of terrorism and of suicide bombers and of the extreme Muslims. This definitely hurts Al-Qaeda in one way or another. I mean, he was the guy who we couldn’t find for about 10 years even after he killed the most Americans on American soil ever. I mean, we find criminals who have committed smaller crimes faster then we could find Osama. It’s like Al-Qaeda is a gang that an army can’t take out or arrest. I just had a thought. You know how there are gang wars over land and drugs and stuff like that? What if we sent a bunch of gang members and leaders over into Al-Qaeda territory and had them start a gang out there? They could fight Al-Qaeda for the growth of Heroin, could fight them for land, and even for recruits. Kind of like fighting fire with fire. I guess we would probably be making a second gang like Al-Qaeda but at least they wouldn’t be suicide bombing people or at least people for religious reasons. So no more bomb threats on airplanes from terrorists, no more blowing up of U.S. agencies in other countries. Things would probably be a lot more peaceful over here. Then I guess that we would just be moving our problems to places where they already are having problems and in an area where there are a lot of key resources. I actually wonder what would happen if we and NATO just left the middle east. We just removed all troops and all support to the middle eastern countries and left them alone for about 20-30 years and just let them solve all of their own problems. Those countries would eventually form the way that the people want whether that means them retaliating or supporting someone. Ever since the end of WWI, the middle east has just gone crazy because the support and order they got from the Ottoman empire completely disappeared. Mostly it seems to me that the more the U.S. tries to help out, the more that we are getting them angry with us and getting ourselves into trouble with other nations.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Maus-Night Comparison
I think that Maus and Night should be read together. The reason is because both show two different sides to the story of how it was in the Haulocost. In Night it shows it as the Nazi's being a dillusion and that those rumors are not in fact true until you get to the camps and find out that the reality was actually worse then those rumors. In Maus it shows how the Nazi's slowly took apart the Jewish society and how they took away all of their rights.
In Night you read about Moshe how he had helped Elie learn more about the Jewish faith until disapperaing. When he came back and started telling people about what the Nazi's have been doing to Jews, people seiously didn't beleive him becaues it sounded so terrible that they couldn't grasp anyone being that evil. One person even said "He's just trying to make us pity him." Of course, it turns out that Moshe was wrong, what he said wasn't even half as bad as what actually happened. Moshe told how a girl took three days to die and how a father begged to be killed before his sons. That is not nearly as bad as digging your own grave to be burned in alive with a bunch of other people. Personally, I think that being burned to death is the worst way to go so for me that must have been absolutly terrible and knowing well too that you were going to be burned once you finished digging. Night we need to read because it brings us first hand into the horrors of the Haulocost.
Maus doesn't exactly go into detail about how peopled died a terrible death. Maus just states that they were shot or poisoned. It also showes how the Nazi's made it hard for the Jews to resist and brings us into light at the time of their accention into power and how they took more and more power away from the Jews. Slowly you see how Vladek can't do as much. Can't buy milk, curfew, food rationing, loss of property. Eventually he runs into a street where Nazi's are killing/beating innocent Jewish people who have followed all of their laws. Even if they had papers they were being beaten. The book also showed us how even if you were following all of the new laws that you were still at a huge risk of being transported to a concentration camp or just being flat out killed. The last thing that Maus showes us is how much will and wit and luck that you needed to survive through the Haulocost.
So we need to read both Maus and Night because they show 2 very important parts to the Haulocost. Night shows us the horrors and Maus shows us what happened when the Nazi's first came to power and how you needed luck and wit to survive as they grew in power.
In Night you read about Moshe how he had helped Elie learn more about the Jewish faith until disapperaing. When he came back and started telling people about what the Nazi's have been doing to Jews, people seiously didn't beleive him becaues it sounded so terrible that they couldn't grasp anyone being that evil. One person even said "He's just trying to make us pity him." Of course, it turns out that Moshe was wrong, what he said wasn't even half as bad as what actually happened. Moshe told how a girl took three days to die and how a father begged to be killed before his sons. That is not nearly as bad as digging your own grave to be burned in alive with a bunch of other people. Personally, I think that being burned to death is the worst way to go so for me that must have been absolutly terrible and knowing well too that you were going to be burned once you finished digging. Night we need to read because it brings us first hand into the horrors of the Haulocost.
Maus doesn't exactly go into detail about how peopled died a terrible death. Maus just states that they were shot or poisoned. It also showes how the Nazi's made it hard for the Jews to resist and brings us into light at the time of their accention into power and how they took more and more power away from the Jews. Slowly you see how Vladek can't do as much. Can't buy milk, curfew, food rationing, loss of property. Eventually he runs into a street where Nazi's are killing/beating innocent Jewish people who have followed all of their laws. Even if they had papers they were being beaten. The book also showed us how even if you were following all of the new laws that you were still at a huge risk of being transported to a concentration camp or just being flat out killed. The last thing that Maus showes us is how much will and wit and luck that you needed to survive through the Haulocost.
So we need to read both Maus and Night because they show 2 very important parts to the Haulocost. Night shows us the horrors and Maus shows us what happened when the Nazi's first came to power and how you needed luck and wit to survive as they grew in power.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Restrepo and Fallen Angels
1. The first guy to die in both the movie and the book greatly impacted how some of their comrades felt
2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too
3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels
4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs
5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief
6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home
7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were
8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong
9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong
10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them
What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.
2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too
3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels
4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs
5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief
6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home
7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were
8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong
9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong
10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them
What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Prewrite For Slaughter House V by Andrew Tesija
Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores
1. I could have stronger main points 6. Think my sentences through more so they are clearer
2. Better quotes that describe my idea better 7. Reread the book a little so it's easier to understand it
3. Do a better job explaining quote 8. Know what page my quotes are on to find them quick
4. Have a better idea of what I'm going to write 9. Plan it or do a prewrite
5. Have a smoother transition between paragraphs 10. Not be distracted when writing my essay
Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).
1. I liked it how the author described death as "So it goes."
2. I liked the authors sexual humor like the description of the tralfamadorians.
3. I didn't like how the 3 plots would interrupt each other but...
4. ...I liked the time traveling that he wrote about because it put a nice spin on the whole book.
5. I liked how the whole book wasn't purely about war but it was completly related to it like everytime Billy was in a hospital there was a veteran of some kind always right next to him
6. I liked how everything was always similar or related like billy's honeymoon. The couple that were on the boat, the man's dad would later be next to Billy when he was in the hospital after the plane crash.
7. I liked how the author avoided talking about people dying, he just stated it matter of factly.
8. I liked how the author made very small details be interlinking like the black and orange paint on the POW germain train car was the same color of the tent at Billy's daughter's wedding
9. I liked how the author used the Tralfamadorians to talk about the human race from a different point of view.
10. I didn't like how the time traveling sometimes gave away some of the key parts of the book like how Billy always knew that Edgar Derby was going to die
11. I Liked why the climaxes were given away because it plays into everything always being seen in the 4th dimension. Like Edgar Derby will be and always have died then, but right now he's just fine. (before he died)
12. I liked how Billy was an optometrist because he studies eyes and their sight but he's learning that people are the only ones who see in the 3rd dimension.
13. I thought it was funny that the author made Billy die from being shot by a laser gun instead of a normal gun.
14. I liked the title of the book. It plays you into thinking that it is about massacer and slaughterings when it is really a thought provoking book.
15. I liked how the author sometimes showed certain events from some of the German soldiers' point of view.
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. Time does not exist
2. Everything is related
3. Nothing is by accident
4. Life is meaningless
5. War is wierd
Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
B: Hello Tesh
T: Hello Billy
B: You know what's really wierd?
T: what?
B: You know my favorite author?
T: yea, you always have one of his books with you
B: well, turns out that he has only gotten one letter and it was from that guy who was in the veterans hospital with me! What's his name, Rosewater?
T: I think so. Wow that's wierd.
B: Yea, but I don't think that that was a coincidence.
T: Hey, I saw you on TV yesterday talking about that theory that everything is in the 4th dimension.
B: Did you?
T: yea! where did you come up with that?
B: I did while I was on Tralfamador after being captured by the Tralfamadorians.
T: Who?
B: nevermind, what they taught me though was that we are the only species that they know of that don't see everything at once. We only see everything in order as it happens.
T: Wow that's wierd.
B: I know but it makes sense sometimes. But it's hard to grasp that time has no meaning. It doesn't even exist.
T: Oh, and I heard that had a wife! I'm so sorry for your loss.
B: It's not a loss. She's really still alive in another time. I just won't think about the times that she isn't.
T: You're not even sad that she died?
B: You know, strangly, after I came back from Tralfamador, I stopped caring about people dying.
T: WHAT?
B: yea, one death or life just doesn't mean much anymore. I mean, if we are always alive in another time, why do we need to be sad if they have died in this time?
T: I don't know.
B: I got to go.
T: Bye
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.
1. I could have stronger main points 6. Think my sentences through more so they are clearer
2. Better quotes that describe my idea better 7. Reread the book a little so it's easier to understand it
3. Do a better job explaining quote 8. Know what page my quotes are on to find them quick
4. Have a better idea of what I'm going to write 9. Plan it or do a prewrite
5. Have a smoother transition between paragraphs 10. Not be distracted when writing my essay
Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).
1. I liked it how the author described death as "So it goes."
2. I liked the authors sexual humor like the description of the tralfamadorians.
3. I didn't like how the 3 plots would interrupt each other but...
4. ...I liked the time traveling that he wrote about because it put a nice spin on the whole book.
5. I liked how the whole book wasn't purely about war but it was completly related to it like everytime Billy was in a hospital there was a veteran of some kind always right next to him
6. I liked how everything was always similar or related like billy's honeymoon. The couple that were on the boat, the man's dad would later be next to Billy when he was in the hospital after the plane crash.
7. I liked how the author avoided talking about people dying, he just stated it matter of factly.
8. I liked how the author made very small details be interlinking like the black and orange paint on the POW germain train car was the same color of the tent at Billy's daughter's wedding
9. I liked how the author used the Tralfamadorians to talk about the human race from a different point of view.
10. I didn't like how the time traveling sometimes gave away some of the key parts of the book like how Billy always knew that Edgar Derby was going to die
11. I Liked why the climaxes were given away because it plays into everything always being seen in the 4th dimension. Like Edgar Derby will be and always have died then, but right now he's just fine. (before he died)
12. I liked how Billy was an optometrist because he studies eyes and their sight but he's learning that people are the only ones who see in the 3rd dimension.
13. I thought it was funny that the author made Billy die from being shot by a laser gun instead of a normal gun.
14. I liked the title of the book. It plays you into thinking that it is about massacer and slaughterings when it is really a thought provoking book.
15. I liked how the author sometimes showed certain events from some of the German soldiers' point of view.
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. Time does not exist
2. Everything is related
3. Nothing is by accident
4. Life is meaningless
5. War is wierd
Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
B: Hello Tesh
T: Hello Billy
B: You know what's really wierd?
T: what?
B: You know my favorite author?
T: yea, you always have one of his books with you
B: well, turns out that he has only gotten one letter and it was from that guy who was in the veterans hospital with me! What's his name, Rosewater?
T: I think so. Wow that's wierd.
B: Yea, but I don't think that that was a coincidence.
T: Hey, I saw you on TV yesterday talking about that theory that everything is in the 4th dimension.
B: Did you?
T: yea! where did you come up with that?
B: I did while I was on Tralfamador after being captured by the Tralfamadorians.
T: Who?
B: nevermind, what they taught me though was that we are the only species that they know of that don't see everything at once. We only see everything in order as it happens.
T: Wow that's wierd.
B: I know but it makes sense sometimes. But it's hard to grasp that time has no meaning. It doesn't even exist.
T: Oh, and I heard that had a wife! I'm so sorry for your loss.
B: It's not a loss. She's really still alive in another time. I just won't think about the times that she isn't.
T: You're not even sad that she died?
B: You know, strangly, after I came back from Tralfamador, I stopped caring about people dying.
T: WHAT?
B: yea, one death or life just doesn't mean much anymore. I mean, if we are always alive in another time, why do we need to be sad if they have died in this time?
T: I don't know.
B: I got to go.
T: Bye
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Siddhartha Blogging assignment
Some of the topics which we had disscussed in class was how Siddhartha was treating Govinda and how Siddhartha is always changing his views to meet his goal of Nirvana. These topics are intresting to me because the both relate to me. Siddhartha's relationship with Govinda is like me and my brother. We both are a little mean to our friend/brother but we do it with our best intentions. Siddhartha left Govinda because they needed to follow their own paths. Siddhartha even said that, "Now you are a man and have chosen your own path. May you go along it to the end my friend. May you find salvation!". I will sometimes tell my brother to stop doing what I did because I did it. That he should be able to do what he wants to do because it's his choice. Siddhartha also talked about reaching his goal. He always set his sights on something and always took the fastest way to reaching it and lets nothing get in his way of reaching his goal. "Listen, Kamala," stats Siddhartha, "when you throw a stone into the water, it finds the quickest way to the bottom of the water. It is the same when Siddhartha has an aim, a goal. Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through the affairs of the world like the stone through the water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal." This also applies to me since I am always aiming for my goal. Now I may not go to the extreme of fasting to reach it, but I work hard and try very hard to reach my goals. If I don't, then I am dissapointed but then try harder.
-Tesh
-Tesh
Sunday, December 12, 2010
5 Quotes from MacBeth that are about being a man
1. pg. 33 lines 47-50
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth has just read MacBeth's letter to her about his crossing with the three witches and she has just been told that the king is going to their house tonight with MacBeth. Lady MacBeth was talking to herself about how she feels like she needs to be more like a man and how she needs to become all evil.
This quote tells how men are very cruel and evil but stronger then woman. How we are cruel enough to do anything and not feel bad about it. And also that we can do more then woman because we have more strength then them.
2. pg 43 lines 53-58
What beast was 't then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is criticizing MacBeth for trying to talk her out from their plan to kill Duncan to gain Kingship. She feels angry and betrayed by MacBeth.
Lady MacBeth here says that you aren't a man if you back out from your promises. You need to go through with everything that you say that you will or else you are not a man, no matter how evil your promise is.
3. pg 43 lines 60-67
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked out my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
-Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is now telling MacBeth how much stronger she is then him. How he needs to start acting like a man or become more like her (a woman).
This shows that men have to be able to overcome anything that comes in their way of their goal. Here, Lady MacBeth does it through telling him that she could starve her own new born baby and watch it die if she promised that she would do it.
4. pg 167 lines 10-12
There is Siward's son and many unrough youths that even now protest their first of manhood. -Lenox
Malcolm's army has just arrived at MacBeth's castle. They were thinking of a strategic spot to be in when they started talking about who will be there at the battle
What Shakespeare shows is that the young boys who are in this fight are becoming men by participating it the battle. It shows that to be a man you have to be able to fight and hold your ground for your beliefs and thoughts.
5. pg 187-189 lines 45-48
He Only lived but till he was a man, the which no sooner had his prowess confirmed in the unshrinking station he fought, but like a man he died. -Ross
Malcolm, Ross and Siward were talking about the battle that they won when they realized that Siward's son wasn't alive. Ross told Siward that he had fought bravely and died as a man and not a boy.
This shows that Men can only leave a fight in 2 ways, victory or death. Men cannot run from a fight or they are seen as woman.
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth has just read MacBeth's letter to her about his crossing with the three witches and she has just been told that the king is going to their house tonight with MacBeth. Lady MacBeth was talking to herself about how she feels like she needs to be more like a man and how she needs to become all evil.
This quote tells how men are very cruel and evil but stronger then woman. How we are cruel enough to do anything and not feel bad about it. And also that we can do more then woman because we have more strength then them.
2. pg 43 lines 53-58
What beast was 't then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is criticizing MacBeth for trying to talk her out from their plan to kill Duncan to gain Kingship. She feels angry and betrayed by MacBeth.
Lady MacBeth here says that you aren't a man if you back out from your promises. You need to go through with everything that you say that you will or else you are not a man, no matter how evil your promise is.
3. pg 43 lines 60-67
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked out my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
-Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is now telling MacBeth how much stronger she is then him. How he needs to start acting like a man or become more like her (a woman).
This shows that men have to be able to overcome anything that comes in their way of their goal. Here, Lady MacBeth does it through telling him that she could starve her own new born baby and watch it die if she promised that she would do it.
4. pg 167 lines 10-12
There is Siward's son and many unrough youths that even now protest their first of manhood. -Lenox
Malcolm's army has just arrived at MacBeth's castle. They were thinking of a strategic spot to be in when they started talking about who will be there at the battle
What Shakespeare shows is that the young boys who are in this fight are becoming men by participating it the battle. It shows that to be a man you have to be able to fight and hold your ground for your beliefs and thoughts.
5. pg 187-189 lines 45-48
He Only lived but till he was a man, the which no sooner had his prowess confirmed in the unshrinking station he fought, but like a man he died. -Ross
Malcolm, Ross and Siward were talking about the battle that they won when they realized that Siward's son wasn't alive. Ross told Siward that he had fought bravely and died as a man and not a boy.
This shows that Men can only leave a fight in 2 ways, victory or death. Men cannot run from a fight or they are seen as woman.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Odyssey 3 PIE assignment
For the Odyssey, the theme of the whole book is have good values. This gets demonstrated throughout the whole entire book.
In book 13, this was shown by Odysseus's great wisdom. The value of wisdom allows you to not have desires cloud your thoughts or decisions. Because Odysseus has great wisdom, he was able to realize that if he went running home to see his wife and son (even though the son wasn't home yet), he would be killed instantly by the suitors who have taken control of his home. Because Odysseus has great wisdom and makes wise decisions, Athena recognized him as wise and helped him for it. Athena even says that Odyssues is the wisest of all men on page 296 lines 329-339. "Any man-any god who met you-would have to be some champion lying cheat to get past you for all-round craft and guilee! You terrible man, foxy, ingenious, never tired of twists and tricks-so, not even here, on native soil, would you give up those wily tales that warm the cockles of your heart! Come, enough of this now. We'er both old hands at the arts of intrigue. Here amoung mortal men you're far the best at tactics, spinning yarns, and i am famous among the gods for wisdom, cunning wiles, too."
Book 16 was the next book that showed values being a key factor. In this book it was patients. When Telemachus first saw his father for the first time since he had left for the war in troy. But, because Telemachus was patient enough to listen to Odyssues prove himself on page 345 lines 229-242. " Telemachus, it's wrong to marvel, carried away in wonder so to see you father here before you eyes. No other Odysseus will ever return to you. That man and I are one, the man you see... here after many hardships, endless wanderings, after twenty years I have come home to native ground at last. My changing so? Athena's work, the Fighter's Queen-she has that power, she makes me look as she likes, now like a beggar, the next moment a young man, decked out in handsome clothes about my body. It's light work for the gods who rule the skies to exalt a mortal man or bring him low." Because Telemachus was patient to listen to Odysseus's story, he found out that the beggar was infact his father.
Book 19 is another book that shows values being of great importance. The value was respect. The maid that was to take care of Odysseus insulted him instead of caring for him. The maid did this but Odysseus warned here on pages 392-393 on lines 75-96. "What's possessed you, woman? Why lay into me? Such abuse! Just because I'm in filthy, because I wear such rags, roving around the country, living hand-to-mouth. But it's fate that drives me on: that's the lot of beggars, homeless drifters. I too once lived in a lofty house that men admired; rolling in wealth, I'd often give to a vagabone like myself, whoever he was, whatever need had brought him to my door. And crowds of servants I had, and lots of all it takes to live the life of ease, to make men call you rich. But Zues ruined it all- god's will, no doubt. So beware, woman, or one day you may lose it all, all your glitter that puts your work-mates in the shade. Or your mistress may just fly in a rage and dress you down or Odysseus may return-there's still room for hope! Or if he's dead as you think and never coming home, well there's his son, Telemachus... like father, like son-thanks to Apollo. No women's wildness here in the house escapes the prince's eye. He's come of age at last." Odysseus warned her to respect him but she didn't listen. And because of that, Penelope fired her and then she became homeless as Odysseus had.
In book 13, this was shown by Odysseus's great wisdom. The value of wisdom allows you to not have desires cloud your thoughts or decisions. Because Odysseus has great wisdom, he was able to realize that if he went running home to see his wife and son (even though the son wasn't home yet), he would be killed instantly by the suitors who have taken control of his home. Because Odysseus has great wisdom and makes wise decisions, Athena recognized him as wise and helped him for it. Athena even says that Odyssues is the wisest of all men on page 296 lines 329-339. "Any man-any god who met you-would have to be some champion lying cheat to get past you for all-round craft and guilee! You terrible man, foxy, ingenious, never tired of twists and tricks-so, not even here, on native soil, would you give up those wily tales that warm the cockles of your heart! Come, enough of this now. We'er both old hands at the arts of intrigue. Here amoung mortal men you're far the best at tactics, spinning yarns, and i am famous among the gods for wisdom, cunning wiles, too."
Book 16 was the next book that showed values being a key factor. In this book it was patients. When Telemachus first saw his father for the first time since he had left for the war in troy. But, because Telemachus was patient enough to listen to Odyssues prove himself on page 345 lines 229-242. " Telemachus, it's wrong to marvel, carried away in wonder so to see you father here before you eyes. No other Odysseus will ever return to you. That man and I are one, the man you see... here after many hardships, endless wanderings, after twenty years I have come home to native ground at last. My changing so? Athena's work, the Fighter's Queen-she has that power, she makes me look as she likes, now like a beggar, the next moment a young man, decked out in handsome clothes about my body. It's light work for the gods who rule the skies to exalt a mortal man or bring him low." Because Telemachus was patient to listen to Odysseus's story, he found out that the beggar was infact his father.
Book 19 is another book that shows values being of great importance. The value was respect. The maid that was to take care of Odysseus insulted him instead of caring for him. The maid did this but Odysseus warned here on pages 392-393 on lines 75-96. "What's possessed you, woman? Why lay into me? Such abuse! Just because I'm in filthy, because I wear such rags, roving around the country, living hand-to-mouth. But it's fate that drives me on: that's the lot of beggars, homeless drifters. I too once lived in a lofty house that men admired; rolling in wealth, I'd often give to a vagabone like myself, whoever he was, whatever need had brought him to my door. And crowds of servants I had, and lots of all it takes to live the life of ease, to make men call you rich. But Zues ruined it all- god's will, no doubt. So beware, woman, or one day you may lose it all, all your glitter that puts your work-mates in the shade. Or your mistress may just fly in a rage and dress you down or Odysseus may return-there's still room for hope! Or if he's dead as you think and never coming home, well there's his son, Telemachus... like father, like son-thanks to Apollo. No women's wildness here in the house escapes the prince's eye. He's come of age at last." Odysseus warned her to respect him but she didn't listen. And because of that, Penelope fired her and then she became homeless as Odysseus had.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)