The Odyssey

So i thought that the book was great. I liked that in chapter XIX, Odysseus was dressed up as a beggar and was in his house and Penelopeia told the nurse to wash Odysseus feet not knowing who he was. " All this passed through the mind of Odysseus, as the old nurse touched him with the palm of her hand and felt the scar. She knew him." (222) " Both joy and sorrow filled her heart, the tears rose in her eyes, her voice chocked." (222) I like that after so many years the nurse still remembers him because of the scar.

I feel sorry for Penelopeia because she has been alone for twenty years and has had to keep herself together, while having men in the house who keep eating your food everyday.That is why the contest of the bow comes in, the leader of the sooters thought it was easy but it wasn't and he was the first to die. " Then he let fly the arrow right at Aninoos." (243) So Odysseus killed him the arrow which hit him in the throught.

Then later after that came the battle in the hall, Odyssus killed everyone except for two men. Then he hung the women that conspired against him, he said it looked like " trushes or doves caught in a net when they come to roost in the bushes." (252)

In the end Odysseus and his wife get together and Penelopeia test him to be sure it is really him. The test of the bed. Odysseus says " It would be difficult to move my bed for the best workman, unless god himself should come down and move it. I made it myself, and no one else touyched it. There was a strong young olive tree in full leef growing in an enclosure,the trunk as a thick pillar....." (257)

I liked the book and hope we get to read another one similar to it. Bye.