Lainee's Travel Journal by Lainee Moore

Is Odysseus a hero?

lm25984 — 2023-11-03 18:27:26 UTC

After the Trojan war Odysseus and our men traveled back with him. He was heroic for doing that but, were blown off course. The raid at the cicones was alright, glad we won. He's a good leader, in fact just not leaving us there suffering and going on his own. Its been 9 days drifting of in sea, wonder what will happen next...

Polyphemus

lm25984 — 2023-11-10 19:07:03 UTC

When we came to this place, Odysseus wondered inside and now we are in a cave. And then, a sound came and we turned and saw a huge cyclops standing there. For me, I was scared but Odysseus was brave enough to say hello. "We felt a pressure on our hearts, in dread". I can't imagine going up to a cyclops with no fear what so ever. Odysseus was pretty heroic for that I would say. He was very confident to say "We are from Troy Achaeans---" Then the cyclops just ate 6 of our men. I'm sure Odysseus will find a way out of this..

Escaped Cyclops

lm25984 — 2023-11-14 19:01:39 UTC

We now got away from the Cyclops, thank god Odysseus got us out of there but he almost got us killed again by bragging about getting out of the Cyclops cave! Like the Cyclops was mad because of this. "you put me down with wine, you blinded me." Then Odysseus just saying "If I could take your life I would take your time away, and hurl you down to hell!" "The god of the earthquake could not heal you there!" He told his real name and where he lives so the Cyclops could find us and end us all! I'm starting to think he's not so heroic after all. Lets see if we make it back as we sail to home...

Circe

lm25984 — 2023-11-15 18:02:12 UTC

Now we went to this place and found a women, ha, I could never be a fool to be scared by a women. She said her name was Circe, I believe. While we came back after looking around for anything dangerous, we found that she fed our men "special food" and then they were turned into pigs. That's about half of the 40 men we had, But I really don't want to be next. But, Odysseus and Circe starting dating and talking and she turned our men back. But, Odysseus has a wife so that's messed up, but it did save our men so its a win for us. I really don't want to stay and I kind of want to go back home finally, but we tend to stay since Odysseus and Circe are "dating". But at least we are safe, for now. I just hope maybe we can find a way out of here but Odysseus is in love and doesn't want to leave, and I understand that. So, I don't know what will happen next...

Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis

lm25984 — 2023-11-28 17:25:20 UTC

Seeing Scylla and Charybdis was scary for me, I wouldn't expect them that to happen, like how are they even real, The again, a lady turn us into pigs. "Oars flew from there hands" "The blades went knocking wild alongside till the ship lost way.." We were terrified, but surely Odysseus can do something to help us, right? So we need to do the orders and things Odysseus gives us to get out of here! "We must obey the orders as I give them" I was scared we were going to die! I think Charybdis was probably the worse though because I thought we were going to be eaten alive in a boat. Luckily, we go closer to Scylla then Charybdis so not everyone would die... Wait, what... I.... (Man has died).