Endorsement Letter

Odysseus Should Be a Hero

Through out the book of The Odyssey Odysseus shows many signs that he deserves to be a hero. There are many people in this book that you could call a hero but I think of all of these people Odysseus shows the most qualities of a hero. He isn't just a hero in the things he does but also mentally he is a hero. He always finds a way and always pulls though. Odysseus deserves to be awarded as a hero because of his ability to build a raft, lead a bunch of people, and find his way to different places.

First when nobody expects him to do so, Odysseus makes a raft. It isn't a bad raft too it takes him very far even when the huge storm comes. If you asked anyone these days to make a raft they would not be able to make a raft that would even float on a pool. Without him making this raft he would have been stuck on this island. No one else that I have read about in this book has done something like that. He went through so much out at sea and still managed to live. This is one of the reasons why I think Odysseus is a hero.

Nobody else would be able to control as many people at a time and do well as Odysseus does. He almost managed to get to Ithaca but then a god cursed him with a storm and he didn't get there. Even though he didn't get there it was amazing how they almost got there and how he was able to get so many people to work together. Even though they got so close and it didn't work out, Odysseus was still able to bring everyone together and make it work.

Even though Odysseus didn't quite make it to Ithaca the way he was able to navigate and almost make it there was a characteristic of a hero. And as soon as they got wiped away he found out how and what he needed to do to find his way there again. Do you think you would be able to do what he does? Travel across a ocean with no sense of where you are going and get to where you want to. Odysseus did this and there is no one else in this book that would be able to do this.

These are only three of the many reason why Odysseus should be voted hero. He was able to travel on the ocean in a raft and not die, lead a whole group of people across the ocean, and navigate through the ocean. There is no one else that shows all these qualities and deserves to be voted hero more than Odysseus.