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The Journey Of Penelope In Homer's Odyssey

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Seven years stuck on this island, everyday counting the days planning, planning to escape from this miserable place and continue my journey to get home and see my beautiful wife Penelope, Oh Penelope how I miss you. All my men dead, dead because of me. Calypso offering me immortality to stay with her and become her husband. Tempting offer it is but I can not accept it as I am already married to Penelope and I am loyal to her. Sadly if if I did say to to her offer I doubt she would set me free. Only the mighty Zeus may know what she’d do to me. He may lose interest in me and kill me. Who knows how that haul beast would try to kill me. Would she make it quick or would she delay it and make me suffer to make up for me rejecting her. Never I could not let that happen I have to get to Ithaca to see my wife, son, and kingdom. I will have to be smart about it. It will have to be a well thought out plan if I wish to ever escape this terrible island and see the beautiful shores of Ithaca again.
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Odysseus then decided to go swimming to the nearest land he could find. Without any sense of direction he threw himself into the sea and began to swim. Not knowing where he will end up he began to aim for a chance of escaping from Calypso. Odysseus swam for what seemed like hours and still nothing in sight. Until finally he came across something that looked like land. He began to swim towards it and when he finally got there he could see it was a small Island. When he arrived to the island he began to build a better raft than the other one since he now has more time to build a raft. Odysseus also went hunting to get food for the journey. Unfortunately for Odysseus the island was quite barren and was only able to get some coconuts and small birds for the journey. Once Odysseus collected all the food and finished building a raft he set sail to Ithaca to get home to his family and

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