Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Reading Notes: Homer's Odyssey, Part B

For the second half of the story I decided to focus more on the Siren’s Isle. I found them intriguing on how they could draw someone in with their singing and beautiful looks and then possibly kill the victim. How haunting and luring they are, yet so mysterious it draws a person in. These mermaid-creature’s characteristics remind me of a group who is portrayed as fake, beautiful, intimidating, yet admirable. My incorporation of the Siren’s will probably be a cliché group of popular girls who are pretty, conniving, dangerous, and manipulative. Because of the main character (Odysseus) winning the fight against his bully (the cyclops) he is seen as some underdog hero that suddenly became noticed. These girls plan to use their words and actions to draw the main character of my story off course of his mission to ask the girl to the high school’s event.


Further on throughout the story the main character ends up getting a call to the principal’s office because of another student reporting the fight that occurred earlier that day. The consequences could avert him from even going to the event which would prevent him on making his move to ask the girl of his interest to the dance. At this moment in the story, I wonder if he will even get to go to the dance. If he does get to go to the dance, how would he get out of the consequences the principal gave him? 

Dangerous Siren 

Bibliography: Homer's The Odyssey. Link to Siren's Section of The Odyssey

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