Homer Yannos is a Greek macho, trouble maker and at times a poser/goof. He didn’t care what he did and didn’t care what people thought of him. Homer also plays the role leader and takes the control of situations. At first he comes across as an unrespectable, immature, cold hearted person; building up an emotional wall to hide behind. Homer contributes to the group that her inspires, encourages, and holds authority. He is forceful in his actions and despise weakens in himself and in ours. Though the chapters you see Homer mature and become a leader. Fast thinker
Lee is mature, withdrawn and unsocial, but also caring, dependable and considerate of others. Lee is highly intelligent and passionate about piano and violin. And shows his interest
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They arrive at Ellie’s house and find her dog is dead, and the phones were cut off, and with the radios they only get static. This is important climatic moment in the novel because at the moment we see their lives changed forever. The tittle is also explained of why it called Tomorrow, when the war began.
3. Discuss a relationship that flourishes during the timeframe of the story
A relationship that flourishes throw the story is between Homer and Fi. At the beginning of the novel Homer thinks Fi is out if league, telling Ellie in chapter 4. And his family is like Greek peasants compared to her
4. Is this a novel about war or relationships?
The novels issues is about war, for it is the bases of the story. The whole reason to why Ellie is recording what happened in writing is to show they do matter and are making a difference to the war. It is also a way for others to read later on to remember when they are gone, the sacrifices they have done. Ellie starts to use their recordings as an outlet for her feelings; this clouds the issues of war into being about relationships. Ellie also used writing about the dramas in the group to distract herself from the bigger issue, the war, fir her to cope with the issue. The novel is about relationships because in Ellie’s eyes that’s what’s was
When going into the Annex, the Van Pels and the Franks could only take a limited amount of belongings with them which left them with next to nothing. Then they later find out that the Nazi’s emptied out their former houses without leaving a single thing behind. The one thing that seemed to belong to everyone was the radio. The eight people would squish in together every night and listen to see how the war is progressing. Continuously, in the book, the war advances to the point where the Allies have made it into the war and are coming to liberate the jews.
Homer writes about stubborn characters who are challenging for Odysseus because he is losing their trust everyday that him and his crew were not back home to their families. Although he is known for being a cunning and intelligent character, he is not the most mentally stable person. Odysseus has had his hypocritical moments which have caused plenty to question his leadership skills.
The author is trying to reveal the fact that they are going to go to war and the people of this society are clueless. This novel really shows the characters ignorance and how important it is to have a well informed
When Ellie learned that masses of people were being executed at the camp he just arrived at, it caught him off guard. Ellie witnessed a hanging, and it scarred him. But later, when the death toll was through the roof, people dying became all too common and
This shows how selfish he is in order to protect his own life. If he told them about Throughout his journey, Homer has shown Odysseus’s character traits in a various way, heroic and unheroic. Odysseus can be loyal and intelligent, but he can also be stubborn. The
In the epic, The Odyssey, Homer displays Ancient Greek values and virtues through his character/hero, Odysseus. Odysseus is a true hero in the eyes of the Ancient Greek Civilization because he was intelligent, loyal, and extremely religious. During Homer’s lifetime, being religious was expected. The
In “Gender and the Homeric Epic”, an article by Nancy Felson and Laura M. Slatkin, the gender roles of various characters in The Odyssey, an epic poem by Homer, are examined in the constraining and progressive lens Homer takes. The characters of the epic most explicitly analyzed are Odysseus and his wife, Penelope; in this article the authors show the traditional gender roles both adhere to, but also exhibit the ways in which the characters are able to reach across the restraining gender roles, without making this story entirely about gender. Through this article one can see that the constraining nature of gender roles seen in society, is not inherent in the society presented in The Odyssey, which describes an intrinsic fluidity which is seen in a plethora of characters. “Gender and the Homeric Epic” discusses the gender roles conceived throughout Homer’s story through the characters Homer and Penelope. Homer represents the masculine war hero, returning home with what should be glory and happiness.
The Odyssey by Homer is an exemplary story that teaches life lessons to those going on a journey for themselves. It illustrates how the challenges and obstacles one may face can help someone become a better leader. The Odyssey highlights one man, Odysseus, a man filled with excessive pride, experiencing the wrath of the god Poseidon. He expects to arrive at his home, Ithaca, safely to reunite with his wife, Penelope, but unfortunately faces many temptations and setbacks. Due to the challenges he faces, it prevents him from arriving home as early as he thought he would.
In Tomorrow When the War Began when the soldiers are shooting at Ellie and Fi, and Robyn takes the gun off Chris; the director uses slow motion and the sound is muted to show dramatic affect. Through the dramatic affect shows us that Robyn has the courage to put aside her religious views on not to murder anyone and to shoot down the soldiers attacking her friends. Courage is shown to us throughout these three texts allowing us to understand
Homer’s life revolved around the fact that the only place he was going to end up was the coal mine. Homer was not a star football player like his brother, he wasn’t very big, he wasn’t stronger, and he really didn’t enjoy it. Homer says “For all the knowledge and pleasure they gave me, the books I read in childhood did not allow me to see myself
One of the prevailing themes is that of the imminent war and enlistment. The war encroaches and finally dominates the boys lives at Devon. Starting with the boys shoveling snow off of the train tracks, then their friend, Leper, enlists, and finally when troops get permanently stationed at Devon. This story is relatable to teens that are the same age as Gene since they do not constantly think about war but as they get older they start to think more and more about
The Odyssey by Homer revolves around the character, Odysseus, and his ten-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. As the epic’s idol, he displays the combination of a clever, handsome, and courageous man popular among the mortals as well as the gods. Essentially, he embodies the ideals of the ancient Greek culture, being adorned with many favored characteristics of the era. However, an intriguing aspect of Odysseus lies in his personality. As the protagonist, he does not manifest the entirety of a stereotypical hero because Odysseus has a fatal flaw—his arrogance.
Difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody”(Lee, 131). These are certainly signs that he is beginning to mature. He is said to have “..maddening wisdom…”(Lee 133) as Scout put it. He seems to know a lot more than he did in the
However, some characters in the epic display many great qualities. In The Odyssey by Homer, loyalty, courage, and trickery are displayed throughout the book in a positive manner, showing that they are the Greek’s cultural values. First, loyalty is shown as a cultural
This is certainly a momentous work that is still alive in the fast world of today, the 21st century. These works are about the Trojan war as earlier said and invoked the Greeks o be imaginative and get united. Homer played a heroic role in uniting the Greek culture and Greek nation under one idea. He gives them a sense of unity and hold their Greek values and traditions. Hooker (nd) describes the number of scrolls covering Homer’s