Odyssey Summary

The odyssey is a story about Odysseus and his journey to get back home. in the odyssey,  odysseus gets stranded on the island of Calypso. Every body thinks that he is dead. Many suitors are at his home for the hand of his wife. during his journey, he and his crew went to visit the Lotus Eaters. Three of his crew members ate the strange plant and lost desire to return home. then they went to and island where a cyclops lived. he lived in a cave full of goats. the cyclops ate two of his men. the crew was trapped in the cave. when the cyclops went to sleep, they took his eye out. they escaped by riding on the undersides of the goats. when they escaped they met the keeper of the breeze. he gave them a leather bag and Odysseus' crew thought that it was treasure so they opened it but it released a hurricane that blew them back to where they began. then some giants ate many of his crew. the survivors went to the island of Circe where she turned some of them (but Odysseus) to pigs. she told him that he would have to go to the land of the dead. after he went to the land of Death, he was back at sea and they had to pass  the sirens but the crew filled their ears up with wax. then they had to pass a wirlpool. when they passed the wirlpool they got hit with a lightning bolt and the only survivor was Odysseus who washed up on the island of Calypso.after a long time the gods decide that he has been there too long and order Calypso to let him go. he is riding on a raft but Poseidon is mad at him for killing his son the  cyclops so he destroys the raft. after a long time he arrives at an island where the king helps him go home. when Odysseus arrives to his home his is diguised by Athena as an old beggar. he runs into his son and tells him who he is and his son believes him. then the son takes Odysseus to his house and his wife says that who ever can string a bow and shoot it through the sockets of twelve axes, a task that she knows only Odysseus can do. when many try and all fail Odysseus does it and succeeds and his wife knows that it is him.

Summary of Echo and Narcissus

The story of Echo and Narcissus is about a nymph named Echo, she entertained Hera by telling her stories. one day Hera got mad at Echo because Zeus was cheating on her and she blamed Echo for distracting her so she took her voice away. Hera gave Echo a curse that would make her repeat whatever some one said. One day she fell in love with a guy named Narcissus. One day he heard a sound and asked who it was and Echo repeated it. He asked her to come out and he saw her, but he told her to go away and he broke her heart.

Hercules, the movie and the story

the movie Hercuels was very different from the story The Twelve Tasks of Hercules. I think that they changed many things so that the movie would be appropriate for kids. One of the changes was that Hercules was the son of Zeus and Hera in the movie but in the story, he was the son of Zeus and a mortal. I think that they changed that so that they would not show a bad example of Zeus cheating on Hera. Another change that they made was that they didn't include all of the tasks form the story in the movie. i think that they did that because it would take too much time and because it might've been too much violence for the kids who would watch the movie. some of the tasks showed bad examples like stealing and they didn't want to teach them that. i think that they made nost of the changes to make the movie "kid" appropriate and to really bring up the lesson to go after your dreams and to be yourself.