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From my previous journal I stated that I was very interested in finishing the rest of the books in the Odyssey. Well I have finished all of them and got some(a) of my questions answered in class and I got some question that I did not turn in I did not understand answered too. In book 4 I left off with wondering wherefore Athena protects Telemachus when shes still upset with. When finishing up the rest of the Odyssey there are many things that are many happening. You have everything from all of the gods are accepting that Poseidon has gathered again on Mount Olympus to discuss Odysseuss fate in book 5. To Athena makes the Ithacans forget the massacre of their children and recognize Odysseus as king, and making Peace being restored in book 24. How unrivaled man goes through all of this is amazing to me. The Odyssey is nothing more than Odysseus telling us his taradiddle and all the things that he had gone through. Odysseus encounters many things that people do not believe to be true because all of his crew is dead and no one had ever dont anything like he is saying that he has. Because his crew is dead there is no one to help tell all of the great adventures that they endeared. The main question I feel that never truly gets answered in the reading is that of wither or not the stories are true. Does it really submit someone who loves his family 20 long time to make it home? To return to his wife and son? And are the wife and son still there waiting for him to return. We know in the reading that they are but how does he know this? Is it because thats how it was back then or why?Why did it weigh him the seven years for him to build a boat to leave the island of Cyclopes and start to make is way back home. When he finally manages to get the boat made to ... ... I keep saying this but I really dont know wither or not I can take this grade ad being true I things some of the things could have happened but not all of them. Im not sure why I find it so hard to believe but I do. While reflecting on this reading I have really stopped to think close to what I am reading and if I believe it to be true or not. Could the Odyssey be written different so that its more intelligible? Or should we already be able to understand the text? I feel that the book could take a whole semester to cover it we were to truly take the time to truly read it not just read it and go on. I can see myself rereading the books and trying to understand more and looking for things that I have missed the first time though. Works CitedBrian Wilkie, J. H. (2001). Lliterature of the Western World Vol. 1. New Jersey Prentice Hall. The Odyssey, pages 273-594