Immortality

Immortality is something that i believe we strive for and imagine we had because it's so far beyond our life, and the curiosity of what could be drives us mad.. even people who turn and attempt to be vampires i think do this in hopes of becoming immortal and knowing what life holds in store for them and others around them. For example.. Dracula.. u think vampire right? well actually.. that was a myth.. he wasn't actually a vampire.. he was a price that killed a lot of people and people made him out to be a mythical creature of temptation and a human being of destruction whom they should fear. His castle lived forever in Transylvania and i think that freaked people out a little, so they believed him to be immortal with his memory haunting them all the time. Even today some of the most popular movies, books, and TV series are based on vampires and immortality. For example: Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and true blood and many more; including Dracula. This makes people's curiosity race and desire something of such power.. life is a power battle and who ever knows most and is on top defeats the rest. There was a boy on Jerry springer claiming to be a vampire and actually fed off his girlfriend and claimed that he burned in the light and he sleeps only during the day, etc. of things that vampires do, and in Europe.. there are people claiming they've seen vampires roaming the land and taking human form.. well the question is.. do they really exist and will immortality come to be reality?

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Hercules was a God and in Disney's version they give him a challenge of love and immortality... he chooses to stay mortal and be with Meg and if a human were given the option i think out of curiosity, the choice wouldn't have come so was because he already knew what it was to be have the choice to live forever.

Odysseus cycle

Odysseus Cycle
Call to Adventure – Trojan War is over – Odysseus’ heart calls him home
Helpers: Other Greek kings; Athena*
Threshold Crossing – gets on his ship to sail back to Ithaca (but is thwarted by Poseidon)
Tests: all the stuff he goes through in the flashbacks
Helpers: Athena
Triumph –what he is going after = sacred marriage
Threshold Crossing: Poseidon’s last “hit” before Odysseus can be at home

Telemachus cycle

Telemachus Cycle
Call to Adventure – Athena says go find your father
Helpers: Athena and Eurycleia (the “nanny”)
Threshold Crossing – goes into his father’s house to stand up to the suitors (steps into his father’s shoes)
Tests: dealing with the suitors’ insults; challenging the townspeople to support him. we have not read the books where he has to go to several different city states to talk to the kings who served with Odysseus on
Helpers: Athena
Triumph –what he is going after = Father Quest (search for his father)
Threshold Crossing: crosses back over the seas to get to Ithaca

the odyssey -- book 10

Aelos' six sons and six daughters are married to each other. Aeolus gave Odysseus gifts of silver and gold. They sail to Telephylus. It turns out that the island is full of giants that begin killing Odysseus' men. Odysseus escapes to the isle of Aeaea. He kills a stag and makes rope so the men may have something to eat and as means of survival. They are lost. They split into two squads to scout the land. A goddess suspiciously invites one squad of men in for food. She puts a spell on them and transforms them into pigs and hogs and other animals. Eurylocos, who did not fall for the trick, returns to Odysseus and tells him what happened to his men. Odysseus leaves his ship and find Hermes, who is in the form of a youthful boy. Hermes asks him if he is going to try and save his friends and gives him information and tips. Hermes also gives him an herb that makes him impervious to Circe's charms. She trys to enchant him, but he pulls his sword and she begs for his hand in bed. He convinces Circe to turn his men back to normal. Eurylochus accuses Odysseus of setting them up with the giants and Circe. After they threaten to leave him behind, he shuts up and comes with; he is very scared of Odysseus. They stay at Circe's for one year and finally, after a year, Circe, tells Odysseus that before he can go home, he must first go to Hades and meet Persephone.

Odyssey- Book 2

• Antiphus- odysseus' companion
• the people see telemachus' bravery and desire his words and he tells themof the loss of his father, but a man blames his mother for the deception and claims she should marry one before things are settled... she does and undoes her work every night so she is not to bewedded to some other man.
• Telemachus wil not blame his mother for the loss of his father like the others do.
• Zeus sent eagles to represent death, but Lord H... says that odyseus was bringing death upon the people and he would return.
• the people blame penelope for the desruction and chaos in the city and they feel she's to get married right away.
• telemachus wants the privaledge to find his father and if he does not find him ... he will agree t owed his mother.
• the people mock telemachus for wanting to find his fathe b/c they believe him to be dead
• the nurse that gives them wine says that people will plot his death while he is gone so that it appears him dead too and she is very sympathetic. She was the only one who knew of their mission.

Odyssey- Book 9

• Demodocus- singer= like a feast.. nothing more beautiful on earth
• Odysseus tells his story
• him and his men went to Battle and sailed away on their ships and when Poseidon was mad @ Odysseus for trying to return home, he caused a storm and blew them out of course. they came to an island.. they saw a man larger than life and Odysseus was very curious and wanted to see if this creature would make peace with him. so he brought it goat skin covered in wine. The man ate his friends.
• Telemachus was planning on staking his eye out so he was persuading him to try their wine so he could get close to him and when Odysseus go him drunk, they stabbed the stake into his eye.
• they slept in the Cyclops's cave and with the sheep
• and were leaving the island and Odysseus was taunting the Cyclops and putting them in danger and told him then that his name was not No-name, but it was Odysseus.
• Cyclops wishes to Poseidon not to let them escape and to lose their way home and get his eye back..
• Poseidon did a lot of this to make him suffer.... (future)

The Odyssey- Book 5

Thereon Minerva wishes that every following ruler will be cruel and unjust. She also fears her son Telemachuse's death on the island even though she sent him there because it would help him get home and punish the suitors. Hermes is then told to tell Odysseus to return home. Hermes tells Calypso that she must let him go and she gets angry with him because she only wants to be happy with Odysseus. But since Zues said it must be done, then it simply must be done. So Calypso tells Odysseus to build a raft and go and that she promises that he will have a safe journey home. Poseidon was angry that Odysseus was getting away so he creates a huge storm to stop him. But the marine goddess Ino came to his side and told him to put on an enchanted veil and swim to the Phaecian coast. When he got in the water, Athena helped him by binding the wind. After three days, he reaches the coast, but it is a cliff and has no way of getting on land. Waves begin to crash against him and he is saved by praying to the gods and is swept into the mouth of a river. He then gives back the scarf Ino had given him as protection. Oddysseus then gets on land and finds a good spot to lay down and sleep.