Odysseus In The Odyssey

A critical event in anyone’s life can change people way of thinking and/or reacting, like Odysseus. In the book the Odyssey, we learned the story about the great warrior Odysseus, who was trying to go home, from a long and brutal war against Troy. He was a great fighter who demonstrated his strength and power in the Trojan War, but his prideful, hubris, and impulsive personality, made his journey back home be extremely long. Throughout most of the story of the Odyssey, there are many examples that demonstrate how Odysseus reacts to certain situation, and how his personality and the way he is, gets him in a lot of trouble. His whole voyage allowed Odysseus to see the outcomes of his reactions, which help him change from being an impulsive person, to a person that strategically plans his actions and waits for the right time to act upon them. The difficult, tedious, and long journey that Odysseus went through just to get to his home town in Ithika, changed him, for the better.
Plunder we took, and we enslaved the women” (Ch. 9 Lines 47-48). After, Odysseus and his man killed all this people, Odyssues man wanted to stay and feast in the island, and since Odysseus ego was so big, he thought that he could stay in an island where he killed most of their citizens and eat their food like nothing had happen. While everyone was eating people from Kikones were able to recruit some of their people and start attacking back Odysseus and his people, who fled to their ship. This whole encounter shows how Odysseus, and also his men believed that they were invincible, and nothing would of ever happen to them. Odysseus attitude, put his life and the life of his men in danger in many occasions, barely fleeing a place