"The Odyssey" by Homer compared to "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Have you ever noniced how people tend to have or so precise

positive traits, but then they cancel them out with negative traits? This is a typical

aspect of tender-hearted nature.Human nature is not perfect; it is a very intricate web of

traits, both positive and negative. This aspect of human nature is shown in both

The Odyssey by Homer,with Odysseus, and Into Thin Air, by lav Krakauer, with

John. They are both intelligent men, they can make most very poor

decisions.

Odysseus is very intelligent. He uses his intelligence against

Polyphemus, and trips from him. Odysseus first uses his

intelligence when he tells the Cyclops that his name is nobody:

Nobody-- thats my name. Nobody-- so my mother and take call

me, and my friends(223, lines 410-411).When he gouges the

Cyclopss eye, the Cyclops tries to obtain aid from his friends and

screams out Nobody, friends. Nobodys sidesplitting me now by fraud and

not by force [brains, not braun]! (224, lines 453-454). His friends reply, If youre

alone, and nobody is trying to overpower you now-- look, it must be a

plague direct here by mighty Zeus and theres no escape from that. (224,lines 455-

459). Odysseus managed to fool all of the Cyclops with his intelligence.

But totally a scant(p) while after, his tendency to make poor decisions

comes into play.

Odysseus, showing his poor-decision-making trait, escapes the island and

than only a short distance from the shore, he foolishly taunts the Cyclops, and

almosts pays for his poor decision with his life: So, Cyclops, no weak coward

it was whose crew you set to devour there in your vaulted cave-- you with your

brute force! Your foetid crimes came down upon your own head, you shameless

cannibal, daring to eat your guest...

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