Student+Notes-Underworld


 * 1) Summarize (5-8 sentences) what happens in this part of Odysseus's journey.
 * 2) What is revealed (positive characteristics) about Odysseus during this episode?
 * 3) What is revealed (negative characteristics) about Odysseus during this episode?
 * 4) How is Odysseus's **//heroic flaw//** developed or diminished during this episode?
 * 5) Describe in one paragraph (5-8 sentences) the stage of the hero's journey known as **//The Atonement with the Father//**.
 * 6) How do the events of this episode with **//The Underworld//** fit this stage of the hero's journey? (Think about how and why Odysseus's mission changes.)

1. He goes in the underworld to talk to this dead blind-seer dude about finding his way back to Ithica. He must sacrifice a ram. He also finds out that his mother has died when Odysseus saw her in that area of the dead people.

2. He is brave in wanting to find out what the fortune teller has to say. Even when he is weak, he still fights his way back to his ship

3) That his mother died because she could not wait any longer for him, because he stayed in Circe’s palace for five years straight.

4. He goes through all the hard tasks to get to the fortune teller. He also has to find his way down to hottest part of the underworld.

5) "In this step the person must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life. In many myths and stories this is the father, or a father figure who has life and death power. This is the center point of the journey. All the previous steps have been moving in to this place, all that follow will move out from it. Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or thing with incredible power. For the transformation to take place, the person as he or she has been must be "killed" so that the new self can come into being. Sometime this killing is literal,"

6. The fortune teller told him that all his men we’re going to die.