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In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus learns patience, the sanctity of life, and humility on his seven year journey back to his homeland. Odysseus handles every situations placed before him in a more mature and wiser manner than before. It is not until the end of ....

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.... suitors and to regain control of his house. Before he descended into Hades, Odysseus was quick to draw his sword and start a fight. At almost all of his stops, Odysseus and his crew, some how or another, got into battles with the inhabitants of the islands. While he is in Hades, Elpenor, his dead crew member, tells Odysseus to bury him or he may “draw up God’s vengeance upon (him)!”(125). When Odysseus leaves Hades he goes back to bury his friend. This is the first time that we see Odysseus paying respect to one of his crew after their death. The many times before when Odysseus’ crew members would die, the death was taken lightly and c ....