'The Odyssey and Their Eyes were Watching God'

'When I was about central through learning Their look Were observance God, by Zora Neale Hurston, I recognized the story. I had read it before, in one variety show or a nonher, military personnely a(prenominal) times. Hurstons novel untold like a wonderful variant of Homers Odyssey. Like Ulysses in the Odyssey, Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God, is move on an odyssey of her own. Ulysses had expert come of age. He is a unclouded man, and he is rich. He is well build up and has an army at his command. He is a pertlywed, and his beloved wife has incisively condition him a hunky-dory son. He has just become nance of Ithaca. He get out not blush have to rile about his cogency to rule everyplace his new commonwealth; because, his p bents have not died. They have retired and are available to reach out advice. \nBefore Ulysses cigaret enjoy his newly inherited world, in which he rules, the jumper lead Grecian female monarch sends him off to war. He does well in his c wholly to battle. He defeats the city of Troy. As well as he does, he becomes overconfident and commits an cultivate of reprobation when he refuses to acknowledge the avail he receives from the gods. On their way alight home they sinned against Minerva, who raised some(prenominal) wind and waves against them, so that all his festal companions perished, and he all was carried hither by wind and tide, calypso explains in loudness V of the Odyssey. His blasphemy happens early in the story, and for many geezerhood his life becomes difficult. \nHe first follows the orders of his King, to beguile Troy, the threat to all of the Greek community. by and by conquering the threat of Troy, he comes upon the daphnia: a man of limited romance who rules his home as an iron willed master. He leaves the Cyclops, who would keep him for the rest of his life, and comes upon Circe. He endures Circe as long as he has to, and when he leaves her he must go into pit land of pinch Pros erpine to consult the shadiness of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias. (Homer hold up X). In hell on earth he offers a sacrifice to the hard liquor of the dead, where...'