Odysseus Dialectical Journal

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As the days went past still no Odysseus my master I will not die without seeing him until then I will hold on to the grass and be the brave Odysseus dog and try to take the pain of these suitors not feeding me abusing me . I will hide under a mass of dung until I wish to see my Odysseus so I can let go. At last I see Odysseus and no it is ok to go when I see him from 20 years and about to die I finally let go as Odysseus walks past trying not to cry because of how I wasn 't taken care of and died. Argos still knows what he was feeling inside so he feels at peace at last and lets the grass go.In the story he says these things exactly (“Odyssey 's ‘voice nearby , he did his best to wag his tail, nose-down with flattened ears, having no

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Odysseus In Homer's The Odyssey By Robert Fitzgerald