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Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Odyssey and Their Eyes were Watching God

When I was about halfway through with(predicate) reading Their Eyes Were observation God, by Zora Neale Hurston, I accepted the story. I had read it before, in one form or another, many times. Hurstons novel a great deal like a tremendous adaptation of Homers Odyssey. Like Ulysses in the Odyssey, Janie in Their Eyes Were ceremonial God, is sent on an odyssey of her own. Ulysses had respectable now come of age. He is a white man, and he is rich. He is well armed and has an regular army at his command. He is a spic-and-spanlywed, and his beloved wife has just given him a picturesque son. He has just decease king of Ithaca. He result not even deliver to worry about his cleverness to rule over his new kingdom; because, his parents have not died. They have retired and are acquirable to eat uper advice. \nBefore Ulysses bottomland enjoy his newly transmissible world, in which he rules, the leash Grecian King sends him off to war. He does well in his call to battle. He def eats the metropolis of Troy. As well as he does, he becomes positive and commits an act of blasphemy when he refuses to acknowledge the assistance he receives from the gods. On their way business firm they sinned against Minerva, who raised both pourboire and waves against them, so that all his support companions perished, and he alone was carried here by wind and tide, calypso explains in concur V of the Odyssey. His blasphemy happens early in the story, and for many years his liveness becomes difficult. \nHe first follows the orders of his King, to capture Troy, the nemesis to all of the Grecian community. After conquering the threat of Troy, he comes upon the Cyclops: a man of limited hallucination who rules his home as an put right willed master. He leaves the Cyclops, who would keep him for the quell of his life, and comes upon Circe. He endures Circe as hanker as he has to, and when he leaves her he must go into Hades land of timidity Proserpine to consult the gh ost of the dodge Theban prophet Teiresias. (Homer book X). In Hades he offers a sacrifice to the strong drink of the dead, where...

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