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Quilt In The Odyssey

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My art piece is based on the quilt penelope was working on to avoid marrying the suitors. I think this is a major part of the story because she kept undoing her work so she could keep the promise she made to odysseus and she never lost faith in him returning to Ithaca. I also chose the quilt because well the artwork on it is nice and because the ship itself is a huge part of the odyssey obviously because I mean he 's basically there most of the book traveling 20 years on a ship to return home. Another thing I notice about the quilt which she said was in honor of odysseus was that the woman on the flag was her which I interpreted was made there so odysseus will never lose faith in returning home to ithaca. While Odysseus is away, her doing

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