Enrique's Journey In The Odyssey

Imagine taking a treacherous journey over infinite hills and violent oceans storms, just to reach a special person or place. However, when one finally completes this tiring journey all the conflicts have come back from previous years and make one’s life fall apart. In the two novels, The Odyssey and Enrique’s Journey, two characters Odysseus and Enrique make a journey across land and sea to reach a special person, and the journey impacted them psychologically by changing their perspective on life and its meaning. After years in the Trojan War, Odysseus is trapped on an island with a nymph, Calypso, and Odysseus constantly mourns because he misses his wife Penelope and homeland, Ithaca. On the other hand, Enrique is constantly depressed when growing up because his mother, Lourdes, left Enrique in Honduras while she went to look for a job in the United States. Thus, these two protagonists, Enrique and Odysseus, took up the task of taking a journey home to get to their loved ones. While, Odysseus and Enrique go on this journey the text also reveals the psychological impacts the journey has on them. To begin with, Lourdes left Enrique when he was five …show more content…
In the novel, when Hermes, the messenger of the Greek Gods, finds Odysseus Hermes asserts that, “ Hermes did not find Odysseus in the cave—that great-hearted man sat crying on the shore” (Homer, Book 5 Lines 99-100). This statement illustrates that much like Enrique Odysseus is depressed because his wife is away at home, while he is stuck in Calypso’s island with no friends. Additionally, this depression triggers Odysseus’s motivation to start a journey to reach Ithaca. Moreover, by utilizing this approach to start Odysseus journey Homer reveals that most psychological journeys start with depression and then motivation to start a journey to get back

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