Brandon, Kyle, Lindsey
After sailing from the land of the Cyclops, Odysseus and his men reach the Aiola Island. The Aiola Island is the home of Aeolus, god of wind. For one month, Odysseus and his men stay on the island telling Aeolus of the war and their adventure of trying to get home. Sensing a need for help, Aeolus stirs up the wind to guide the crew home. He also gives Odysseus a bag containing storm winds; however, Odysseus is told not to open the bag until he reaches Ithaca or they will be sent off track. After sailing nine days and night, Ithaca comes into sight. Odysseus’s men are real curious and think that the bag is full of silver and gold. While Odysseus was sleeping, they tore the bag open and all of the wind escapes sending them off track and away from Ithaca. The men end up at the Aiola Island again. After explaining to Aeolus what happened and asking for more wind, Aeolus refuses, claiming that the gods hate Odysseus and wish harm upon him.
The movie is slightly different. In the book, Odysseus and his men stay on Aeolus’s Island for a month. In the movie, Odysseus is trying to get water when Aeolus shows up. Aeolus tells Odysseus that he knows of him and can help him get home. It can be assumed that the men only stay on the island for an hour or two. When his impatient crew members open the bag, they aren’t sent back to Aiola Island.
Odysseus’s heroic attributes is that he is a mortal and can do things any other mortal cannot. Although considering this, his men do not mind him very well. He gave them strict orders not to open the bag until they got to Ithaca. He did not tell his men what was in the bag so they assume it is silver and gold. While Odyssey is asleep, they figure they can open the bag just for a peek and nothing will happen. In this part of the story, the problem is temptation. His men are so impatient and tempted to know what is in the bag that they don’t really think about what could happen. Because of their temptation, they sent away farther away from home when they were just insight of it.
12 comments:
This part of the story makes me sick! He was so close to home! But I guess it did make the story more interesting. If his men could only of trusted him then this would not of happened. I liked this part of the story better in the book than in the movie because it goes in more detail and because he is on the island for way longer.
I thought the part was pretty dramatic where the guy who opened the skin gets blown up into the air. It was a little unexpected, even after reading about it in the book.
It would be amazing and heroic if any human-being actually could survive all that stress! How frustrating can life get? I guess he became accustomed to it in the long run, though, and learned patience. Reminds me of the song "Man of Constant Sorrows" (I hope I got the title right).
This part of the story was better in the book because he spent more time on the island. Odysseus' had more patience than I think I could ever muster! Ha..poor guy. His home was just in sight, and an untrusting crewman decides to mess it up. Surprised he didn't do much else to him..
Yeah, this part really makes me mad too. I mean they were so close to home and then his men who showed they lacked trust in their king pulled something like this. For the men who did it, they did deserve to be steered off track but for the innocent it was a punishment they did not deserve. This is somewhat similiar to the story of adam and eve in the bible. God told them not to do something and they still did it and the outcome of their actions were not good. Good job on writing this though. I enjoyed reading it.
So close yet so far away. This is an interesting part of the story where betrayal is only imagined. His men should have trusted him more after so many trials.
This part of the story really shows Odysseus' inner strength. After all the trouble that he had already been through, he kept trying to get back home. I probably would have given up after my crewman lost faith in me and opened the bag of wind. There destination was in sight, and the unfaithful crewman opened the bag and blew them all the way back. It seemed that Odysseus would never get back home.
I cant believe that Odysseus was almost home and his foolish men doubted him. I wonder why they doubted him then though, because before they never really questioned him and were right by his side. I can onlly imagine how mad Odysseus was when he woke up!
I hate this part of the story. Makes me mad just reading about it or watching it on the movie. His crewmen were just too impatient to wait like they were told. They could have been home a whole lot sooner and avoided all the other problems if they would have minded their leader. I agree that the ones who opened it deserve what they got, but the ones who didn't are receiving punishment which isn't fair. But if this didn't happen then the story would have been shorter. Plus this part makes it just a little bit more interesting.
It really does show Odysseus' inner strength. Any other person probably would have tried to kill them after being so close and now turned completely away. Couldn't have been me!
I still cannot believe they open the bag right when they can see home! I feel like Odysseus could have at least told them something about the bag so they wouldn't have been so curious. I mean even if he said "just trust me we cannot open the bag until we reach home, for we will never make it if we open it." They should have listened to him anyway but I just think he should have explained it a little better. But if they wouldn't have done it then, there still would have been another time that they would have not been faithful. It just shows that they did not completely trust Odysseus.
In reply to Stacy, I agree that Odysseus should have told his men something about the bag so they wouldn't have been so curious. Might have saved him all the trouble.
I think that book version is better. The book seems to have better details. It draws more pictures than the movie did.
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