Paige+Q4

Hey, Hey! Welcome to Paige's Page...haha...what a pun!   This is the book I just finished a couple of weeks ago. It's good if you are into depressing novels. I'm reading this book right now and it's really simple, but captures a side of life a lot of people don't understand. It's written from a 9th graders point of view, so some of the grammer isn't always right, and it's written in some sort of free verse writting!



For this semester, I've decided to read __The Odyssey of Homer__, a verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum. Telemachus, an Ithacan, is the son of Penelope and Odysseus, who is looked at as "dead." But, with the help of the god, Athena, Telemachus knows of his father's survival and is suggested by Athena to start a voyage looking for him. Before he does, Telemachus holds a meeting with some of the men of Ithanca, and tells of his want to find his dad, but also expresses his worry for his mother, who is sad all the day long and is bombbarded by men that wish her to be thier bride. The men reject both of Telemachus's ideas, but mostly because they love the wealth of his home and they do not with for his father's return. Although pressured not to go, Athena again helps Telemachus, and he starts his voyage to find his long-lost father.

As you might have possibly noticed, this book is a little different, unique. A couple of things that make this book unique is the age and the style. It's said to have originated from 800 B.C.!! Isn't that old. It's very interesting how Homer decided to write __The Odyssey,__ or at least how Allen Mandelbaum chose to interpret his writing, because it's written in verse, which means kind of poem-like. Although sometimes I get caught up in the rhyming, it's not distracting to the story line like other books I've read that were written in verse.