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Heros Journey Sam D.

• Homers The Odyssey and The Bibles Noahs Ark
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Heros Journey Homers The Odyssey
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Supernatural Aid

• In the beginning of the epic poem, Odysseus calls
  for inspiration, Sing in me, Muse, and through
  me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways
  of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on
  end, after he plundered the stronghold on the
  proud height of Troy (Book 1, 1-5). Odysseus is
  simply calling on the Muse, daughter of Zeus,
  source of all inspiration, to guide him and give
  him strength through his journey. That is his way
  of attempting to grab hold of a supernatural aid.

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Woman as a Temptress

• As Odysseus and his crew try to sail home from
  their journey, they run into a major obstacle,
  Square in your ships path are sirens, crying
  beauty to bewitch men coasting by/ the sirens
  will sing his mind away on their sweet meadow
  lolling (Book 12, 4-10). The men have to face
  the sirens, tempting creatures whom sing a song
  so irresistible, its as if theyre luring the
  men to their very own death. Odysseus and his
  crew try to resist temptation like a teenager
  tries to resist operating their cell phone.

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Freedom to Live

• Odysseus was absent from his home for twenty
  years straight, with a wife patiently waiting
  for him to return. Now from his breast into his
  eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at
  last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his
  arms, longed for as the sun warmed beach is
  longed for by a swimmer (Book 23, 81-84). At
  this moment, the story is coming to a close, and
  Odysseus has completed his heros journey by
  receiving the freedom to live back in Ithaca.

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Heros Journey Noahs Ark
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Call to Adventure

• Noah was an extremely faithful and obeying
  follower of God, so God called down on him one
  day, Now the earth was corrupt in Gods sight
  and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the
  earth had become, for all the people on earth had
  corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, I am
  going to put an end to all people, for the earth
  is filled with violence because of them but I
  will establish my covenant with you, and you will
  enter the ark- you and your sons and your wife
  you are to bring into the ark two of all living
  creatures, male and female, and keep them alive
  with you (Genesis 6, 11-13, 18-19). God trusted
  Noah so greatly that he called on him to carry
  out this task, this adventure, at hand.

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The Road of Trials

• In order to carry out Gods command on Noah, he
  had to endure many rough nights and days, Seven
  days from now I will send rain on the earth for
  forty days and forty nights and I will wipe from
  the face of the earth every living creature I
  have made ( Genesis 6, 4). Noah was to suffer
  through the forty days and nights in a wooden
  ark, with pairs of filthy animals all around, in
  the midst of a storm. He was on the road of
  trials.

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Rescue from Without

• The forty days and nights slowly passed, But God
  remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the
  livestock that were with him in the ark, and he
  sent a wind over the earth, and the waters
  receded. Now the springs of the and floodgates of
  the heavens had been closed, and the rain stopped
  falling from the sky. The water receded steadily
  from the earth (Genesis 8, 1-3). God stopped the
  flooding to return Noah from his journey back to
  earth, and build the new human race.

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Works Cited

• Bloom, Harold. Homer's the Odyssey. New York
  Chelsea House, 1988. Print.
• The Holy Bible. Glasgow Scotland Collins
  Publishers, 1989. Print.