While on his long-enduring journey, some of the most challenging trails Odysseus comes across are the two nymphs known Circe and Calypso. Their irresistible appeal threatened Odysseys’ focus on his mission home, causing him to get off track and spend up to years.This type of seduction and allurement is what differentiates the type love in the Odyssey from any of the other books and is the least common type of love authors use in their stories. While there is that difference, the classic idea of love, which is love and attachment amongst your family and friends is obvious with his loving wife, Penelope, and son Telemachus. His main reason to keep trying to reach home was in order to see the two and kept him motivated to push through, even when he was given multiple chances to stay in one place and live a comfortable life for eternity. Similarly, in Unbroken, the character Louie was sent off to fight in WWII where he was captured by the Japanese, put in a prison camp, then physically and mentally abused by the guards. The only thing that gave Louise the strength to continue fighting was the love he had for his family. This book also demonstrates the power love can have on people when Louise was thought to be dead, but his family who believed he was still alive helped them with the devastating thoughts that they would have lost someone they
While on his long-enduring journey, some of the most challenging trails Odysseus comes across are the two nymphs known Circe and Calypso. Their irresistible appeal threatened Odysseys’ focus on his mission home, causing him to get off track and spend up to years.This type of seduction and allurement is what differentiates the type love in the Odyssey from any of the other books and is the least common type of love authors use in their stories. While there is that difference, the classic idea of love, which is love and attachment amongst your family and friends is obvious with his loving wife, Penelope, and son Telemachus. His main reason to keep trying to reach home was in order to see the two and kept him motivated to push through, even when he was given multiple chances to stay in one place and live a comfortable life for eternity. Similarly, in Unbroken, the character Louie was sent off to fight in WWII where he was captured by the Japanese, put in a prison camp, then physically and mentally abused by the guards. The only thing that gave Louise the strength to continue fighting was the love he had for his family. This book also demonstrates the power love can have on people when Louise was thought to be dead, but his family who believed he was still alive helped them with the devastating thoughts that they would have lost someone they