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[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“He began singing of Achilles and Odysseus, and this brought tears to that hero’s eyes.” Ody was sentimental hearing that song #odyquote book 8

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

King Alcinous asks to prepare a ship and have a banquet for his unknown name guest. They sung and entertained him and gave him bars of gold. At the end Ody was weeping and the king finally asked who he was and where he came from #odyplot book 8

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“And indeed their feats were prodigious.” A feat is something that they did and it was prodigious meaning it succeeded on what they wanted it to do #odydiction book 8

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“They’ve always appeared to us in all their glory, since we are their kin.” #odyquote book 7

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“Odysseus stopped in the threshold, dazzled.” A threshold is the doorway so when he was entering the room he stopped because he was amazed of the castle #odydiction book 7

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Ody heads to the palace he goes to the queen to plea a safe trip home.The king grabs Ody and says they will give thought of making his way home faster.After the guests leave the queen ask how he got the clean clothes and tells her about the encounter with the princess #Odyplot B7

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“...but Nausicaa stood her ground.” By that you can tell that she has courage because a naked man comes up to her and her maids and the maids run away but she stays to see what this stranger wants in her kingdom #odycharacter book 6

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“If she accept your supplication, you’re as good as him.” Supplication means to ask humbly because Ody was going to ask Princess Nausicaa mother if he could stay #odydiction book 6

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Athena appears in the dreams of Princess Nausicaa so she can help Ody. She wakes up and has an idea (which was Athena’s) to go to the river there she meets Ody and makes a plan for him to go to the kingdom to go to the palace and find her mother #odyplot book 6

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“He finds her at her hearth...” hearth means like a house so he went to her home #odydiction book 5

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Zeus makes Calypso let Ody go so Ody sets sail and Poseidon sees that and throws him off the boat and wants to drown him. Then a goddess called Leucothea helps him get to a nearby island and there he finds a make shift bed and falls asleep. #odyplot book 5.

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“Every day for the last seven years he’s sat on the same rock gazing out to the sea, weeping for home and Penelope.” Ody feels sad because he wants to go home to his wife. #odyquote book 5

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

Telemachus gets to the kingdom of Menelaus there he learns some things and gets the news that his father is alive. Also, the suitors finally found out Telemachus left and want to ambush him when he comes back #odyplot book 4

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

”Odysseus lives still, though marooned, without a crew of oarsmen to stroke him home.” Telemachus finally learns that ody is really alive he just can't get home because he's at sea with no one #odyquote book 4

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

”But meanwhile his situation had become still more perilous.” The word perilous means danger so Telemachus was in danger because of the suitors wanting to ambush him #odydiction book 4

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”Telemachus asks the wise old king to tell him how and where his father died, for he cannot help but assume the worst.” Telemachus still has no hope that his father is alive even though people have told him he is. #odyquote book 3

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

King Nestor explains to Telemachus all that happened and Telemachus asks how ody dies but the king doesn't know. Then the king set him and one of his sons on a journey to Menelaus to seek further news. #odyplot book 3

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

”... insisted that a sacrifice be held first to pacify the goddess.” Pacify meaning to stop the goddess (Athena) from being angry #odydiction book 3

[Karla Ortiz @karlaop2b23]

“He asks them how they can stand idly by and allow his mother’s hospitality to be abused.” Telemachus doesn’t like his mother being used #odyquote book 2

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Telemachus doesn’t want to talk to Antinous I believe that Antinous is not a good person since Telemachus doesn’t want to talk to him #odycharacter book 2