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JOURNAL ENTRY WARM UP

Use your dialectic journal rubric to determine what the strengths and weakness of these journal entries are.
Quote Analysis Strengths Weaknesses
“He brought her This quote shows how
so many hospitality is an important part
presents, of the structure of The
plunder out of Odyssey. Odysseus and his
Troy, that’s it… shipmates expected gifts
And who has because of their Greek
gifts from beliefs, but the Cyclops didn’t
Aiolos?” (10.46- give presents. The Greek
49) beliefs might contrast with the
Cyclops beliefs.

“Here we put in, Aiolos welcomes Odysseus

lodged in the into his island, “Here we put
town and in, lodged in the town and
palace….” palace….” Aiolos sits down
(10.14-16) and listens to all of
Odysseus’s stories. This
shows hospitality throughout
Aiolos and how he’s a nice
god. If you do good things.
Aiolos trusts Odysseus and
gives him a bag of wind.
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“…to help a The text states, “to help a

man the man the blessed gods detest-
blessed gods out! Your voyage here was
detest-out! Your cursed by heaven.” (10.84-
voyage here 85) This shows that Aiolos
was cursed by believes Odysseus is cursed
heaven.” by the gods to never return
(10.84-85) home again. He also isn’t
willing to help Odysseus any
longer and casts him away.
This is important because it
represents a large part of
Greek culture; of how the
gods had the power to curse
people and control mortals
fates.
Odysseus and his crew finally
leave Kyklopês Land and
reach Aiolia island, the land
where Aiolos lives, the
“Warden of winds”. There
Odysseus is presented with a
bag containing all the winds,
given to him by Aiolos to take
the tragic/epic hero and his
“squadron spanking home”
back to Ithaka.(165-166)
Here, Odysseus has lost a lot
of his crew throughout his
journey and, Aiolos assists
Odysseus on his hero's
journey, 4 o’clock in the
hero’s journey cycle.