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From my previous journal I stated that I was very kindle in finishing the rest of the books in the Odyssey. Well I expect finished all of them and got approximately of my questions answered in class and I got some question that I did not lie with I did not recognize answered too. In book 4 I left off with query why Athena protects Telemachus when shes still upset with. When finishing up the rest of the Odyssey there are many things that are many happening. You experience everything from all of the gods are accepting that Posei beginner has gathered again on dupe Olympus to discuss Odysseuss fate in book 5. To Athena makes the Ithacans give the massacre of their children and recognize Odysseus as king, and making Peace being restored in book 24. How one man goes through all of this is amazing to me. The Odyssey is zipper more than than Odysseus telling us his story and all the things that he had kaput(p) through. Odysseus encounters many things that people do not believe t o be confessedly because all of his crew is breathless and no one had ever dont anything like he is saying that he has. Because his crew is dead there is no one to help tell all of the keen adventures that they endeared. The main question I feel that never really needs answered in the edition is that of wither or not the stories are adjust. Does it really throw someone who loves his family 20 years to make it home? To return to his wife and son? And are the wife and son still there time lag for him to return. We know in the memorialiseing that they are but how does he know this? Is it because thats how it was back then or why?Why did it prefer him the seven years for him to build a boat to leave the island of genus Cyclopes and start to make is way back home. When he finally manages to get the boat made to ... ... I keep saying this but I really dont know wither or not I can take this story ad being true I things some of the things could have happened but not all of the m. Im not sure why I find it so hard to believe but I do. While reflecting on this reading I have really stopped to think about what I am reading and if I believe it to be true or not. Could the Odyssey be written different so that its more understandable? Or should we already be able to understand the text? I feel that the book could take a whole semester to cover it we were to truly take the time to truly read it not just read it and go on. I can see myself rereading the books and trying to understand more and looking for things that I have missed the first time though. working CitedBrian Wilkie, J. H. (2001). Lliterature of the Western World Vol. 1. New Jersey Prentice Hall. The Odyssey, pages 273-594