Odysseus


 * Odysseus has many adventures throughout the story on his way home from Troy after the war. The first adventure he goes is the Lotus Eaters. The Lotus eaters are creatures that eat flowers called Lotuses Odysseus and his crew land on the island of the Lotus-Eaters to get water. The Lotus-Eaters offered Odysseus and his men the sweet Lotus. The men who ate them never returned to the ship. The next adventure they had been on was the Cyclops. They were giant creatures with one eye. They don't plow or sow by hand. Odysseus and his men land on this island to get food. One Cyclops trapped them in his cave and ate two of them for every meal, so Odysseus made a giant stake and burnt it and shoved it in the Cyclops eye. They snuck out on the sheep and took some of his sheep with them. Then they had to go to the land of the dead. When they went there Odysseus found out that his mother had died and he didn't know because when he left for Troy she was still alive. Then they went back to the Sorceresses island to bury their friend that had died and Circes warned them of the land of the Sirens.

The Sirens were half woman half bird and when they saw a ship they sang and their songs were so irresistable the sailors would go to their island to see them and the Sirens ate them. Odysseus had to put ear plugs in all his mens ears and then his men had to tie him up. If he told them to untie him they had to tie him tighter with more rope. Odysseus did not tell them to untie him although he wanted to and he struggled to get out of the rope but the men just tied him tighter. They would not let him go until the singing of the Sirens faded, then they untied him.

In conclusion I think Odysseus learned he can't always have what he wants, because he wanted the Sirens really bad but his men wouldn't untie him. **