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How To Train Your Dragon In The Odyssey

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In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero, Odysseus, is trying to return home after the defeat of the Trojans. His main goal is to get back home to Ithaca and to Penelope and Telemachus. Odysseus battles many obstacles while in the process of returning to his wife and son. In How to Train Your Dragon, a film by Cressida Cowell, Hiccup begins his journey to fight dragons which is a way of life. Hiccup wants to join his towns fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his father and village leader, stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy son to do so. The ancient Greeks heroes display love, loyalty, and emotion for their culture. In 2000’s America, society was still suffering from the war on terrorism. As seen in The Odyssey …show more content…

Hiccup is not strong or tough and tries hard to make up for that by building gadgets to help do what he cannot do. His father looks down on these inventions and hopes that Hiccup will grow out of it so he can become a true Viking warrior. Their village is annoyed by dangerous dragons, and Hiccups father suggests he attend dragon training to help fight against them. ‘Home’ is another heroic journey of Hiccup, our hero Hiccup, lives in a Viking village on the island of Berk. The village is always charged by dragons, who harass the inhabitants and steal their livestock. Nearly everyone in the village fights against these dragons, including the leader, Hiccups father, Stoick the vast, who is well respected and brave. Unlike Hiccups father, Hiccup is considered weak, and clumsy. These steps reflect modern culture because Hiccup didn’t really make good decisions and didn’t listen to his father a lot. In ‘The call’ Hiccup didn’t make a good decision by going and hunting dragons by himself and he didn’t listen to his dad because his dad warned him not to go by himself but he refused to listen. Also, he shouldn’t have gone close to Toothless because those kinds of dragons are very dangerous, but he got lucky with

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