The Odyssey In The Odyssey And Cold Mountain

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The two stories, The Odyssey and Cold Mountain, have many similarities that gave Cold Mountain the title of “the American Odyssey”. The characters portrayed in them share many characteristics that can lead people to believe that characters from Cold Mountain were created to resemble characters from The Odyssey. More specifically, the characters Ada and Ruby from Cold Mountain resemble the characters Penelope and Athena from The Odyssey.

Athena and Ruby are similar in the fact that they both have a natural sense of guidance that they use to guide Penelope and Ruby, helping lead them to being able to support themselves while their husbands are returning from the wars that they fought. Throughout Cold Mountain, Ruby helped Ada revitalize
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