Final+Product-Nausicaa


 * I SUMMARY**

When Hermes told Calypso that she had to free Odysseus she refused but Hermes told her that if she did not release Odysseus, Zeus would be mad. After Calypso had told Odysseus he was able to leave he asked her for a boat to go home with but she said she did not have one and that he would have to make his own. So Odysseus started to work on his boat and when he was done Calypso begged him to stay but he refused so he got on his boat and made his way home. What Odysseus did not know was that Poseidon was still mad at him for stabbing his son the Cyclops in the eye. So Poseidon made the sea go wild and Odysseus’s little boat was destroyed and the only thing left for Odysseus to hold on to was a piece of his boat. Odysseus screamed to Poseidon “what do you want from me” and Poseidon told him that he wanted him to understand that he needed gods. Meanwhile Princess Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous king of the Phaeacians, was washing her clothes at the sea shore with some of the servants. Suddenly she saw a naked man on the sea shore and went to look to see who it was. When she saw that the man on the sea shore she fell in love with him but even though she loved him she gave him to her father, the king.


 * II ANALYSIS**

The positive characteristics that are revealed in this episode are that he is brave because he is not scare when Poseidon makes all the waves, also that he finally understood that he’s just a man and also that pride is not a good thing. During this episode of Odysseus journey he reveals that he has no more pride, so he does not have any more negative characteristics. Odysseus’s Heroic flaw Diminishes when he washes up on the shore and the princess clothes him and feeds him and when her father throws a party for him.


 * III HERO'S JOURNEY**

There is a part in the hero’s journey known as the **//Rescue from without.//** The Rescue from without is the part of the hero’s journey when the hero’s needs help from rescuers or may have to have powerful guides for other people. This part may also be when the hero doesn’t realize that it is time to return, that they can return, or that other people need their help. All the events in the episode lead up to this part in hero's journey. This episode was part of the rescue from without. In more general this episode is part of the Challenges which is make the hero’s and it is also the part were he is being tested in many different ways.


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