Odysseus got into his boat with his fellow friends and went into sea. A couple of days into the sea on their way to Ithica, a storm was headed their way. It was raining very hard. Odysseus got into a ship wreck. He didn't know what to do. So after a while he landed on this deserted island but he didn't know which island it was.
So far, so good.
So as Odysseus looked around he noticed that he was in Ithica. But he was still scared so he looked around screaming for help until this girl named Nausicaa came looking for him because she heard his screams. Then she found him and told him her name then he went to her palace where her father lives. Then they had a party and then he started to sing the song of the Trojan War. Then he told them his name. Then they kicked him out of their palace.
This is ok up to the part where they kicked him out -- they actually gave him food and wine and presents and a boat. Right here is where it starts to get awesome.
The Pink Pig. So as they finish their journey on to back home. The person who told him to take this journey told him not to touch the pink pig and as he was walking he touched the pink pig. Forgetting not to touch the pig, he started getting old and crusty not knowing that he was going to have a spell on him.
(This doesn't happen.)
So as he found out that he got a spell on him then he started to hear dead people so he went underground to the underworld and he saw a whole bunch of people like his mom telling him not to worry but he's gong to have a bad accident and that his family was ok and that his wife is being forced to marry someone else.
Here is where The Odyssey apparently ends. Except for two more sentences on the back cover:
Lotus eaters are plants.
(No, they're not.) And:
Odysseus turned back into himself.
(In Homer's version he never changed, but that is so trite and overdone.)
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