Odysseus Is Not A Hero Analysis

Odysseus is not a hero because he let down a lot of people. What a hero is a person that will give everything that they have to save another person from any harm. Such as next a reasons why Odysseus is not a hero is because he was the cause why his own mother died. Odysseus was not a hero because he let his own mother die. When Odysseus was in his return from Troy(adventures), he was away for a long period of time,but as his mother grew older every day he was making it harder for his mother to live. He was the cause why his mother died making her sad,lonely, and she worrying for her son Odysseus. It is a lot of pressure for a mother to not know if her son is still alive or not, making it hard for her to be calm (always worried). “My own end happened this way: heaven did not take me swiftly and
There Odysseus and his men kill some of the Cicones and took their food and wifes. Odysseus and his men killed innocent people that did nothing to them. Maybe he wanted to celebrate by feasting in other people's property. Another reason was maybe he wanted those people to know that they had won the battle that took a long time to win.“I sailed first to Ismarus,which is the city of Cicones.There I looted the town and attacked the people.We took their wives and much booty.”(Pg.75)
Now some people may say that Odysseus is a hero because he gave up his life to go and fight for other people’s freedom. However Menelaus said to Telemachus, “No one among our soldiers risked so much or had so much courage.”(Pg.39) he did not care about his family and all the people that he left behind, for this he is not a hero. But not everybody who goes to the war is a hero or that has that much courage. So as you can see Odysseus let down a lot of people. For example he let his own mother die. Odysseus even killed innocent people that did no harm to