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A 5 page essay that contrasts the spiritual journey toward maturation portrayed in Homer’s Odyssey and Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima. Examination of both narratives demonstrates that they each concern stories of spiritual maturation. While the Homer’s protagonist is a grown man, a Greek hero of the Trojan War, Odysseus, and Anaya’s novel is the story of a six-year-old boy, they nevertheless bear this similarity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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human beings remain much the same. People still have to live with the consequences of excessive pride and impetuousness. They still benefit from spiritual enlightenment and the maturation. These commonalities
are evident in a comparison of Homers ancient epic the Odyssey and the modern classic of Latino literature, Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. Examination of both narratives demonstrates that
they each concern stories of spiritual maturation. While the Homers protagonist is a grown man, a Greek hero of the Trojan War, Odysseus, and Anayas novel is the story
of a six-year-old boy, they nevertheless bear this similarity. In the Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew are trying to journey home to Greece after the close of the Trojan
War. This journey provides the narrative structure for the epic, during which Homer portrays Odysseus and his crew being subjected to a variety of punishments that all result from their
own submission to temptation and/or recklessness or to excessive pride (hubris). One of the main principal examples of this is when Odysseus and his crew are trapped in the cave
of the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of the god Poseidon. Odysseus wisely does not tell the Cyclops his true name, cleverly telling Polyphemus that his name is "Nobody." After Polyphemus
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his eye. When Polyphemus friends respond to
his cries of pain, the Cyclops responds to their questions by saying that "Nobodys killing me now by fraud and by force" (line 455, p. 224). Odysseus could have
escaped with his identity unknown, but his pride intervenes. He brags and tells Polyphemus his true name so that he will know who has bested him. Due to his rash
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