The Odyssey and Their Eyes were Watching God

When I was approximately middle(a) through run downing Their eyeb only Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, I recognized the story. I had read it before, in one exploit or another, many times. Hurstons story much like a wonderful adaptation of Homers Odyssey. corresponding Ulysses in the Odyssey, Janie in Their eye Were Watching God, is sent on an odyssey of her own. Ulysses had hale(p) come of age. He is a white man, and he is rich. He is hale arm and has an army at his command. He is a freshlywed, and his beloved married woman has just given him a fine son. He has just become king of Ithaca. He will not still consecrate to worry about his ability to rule everyplace his new kingdom; because, his p arnts have not died. They have retired and are available to offer advice. \n in the setoff place Ulysses can enjoy his newly inherited world, in which he rules, the leading Grecian king sends him off to war. He does well in his c all(prenominal) to battle. He defeats t he city of Troy. As well as he does, he becomes overconfident and commits an act of execration when he refuses to acknowledge the tending he receives from the gods. On their room home they sinned against Minerva, who raised both(prenominal) digress and waves against them, so that all his brave companions perished, and he totally was carried hither by wind and tide, Calypso explains in admit V of the Odyssey. His blasphemy happens proterozoic in the story, and for many geezerhood his life becomes difficult. \nHe first follows the orders of his King, to conquer Troy, the threat to all of the Greek community. After stamp down the threat of Troy, he comes upon the cyclops: a man of peculiar(a) vision who rules his home as an iron willed master. He leaves the Cyclops, who would intimidate 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 essential go into blaze demean of dread Proserpine to consult the mi te of the blind Theban seer Teiresias. (Homer book X). In Hades he offers a leave to the spirits of the dead, where...