reflection

I chose to do a blog because I thought that because the book was so informative and didn’t go into much depth about emotions of all the characters it would give me an opportunity to do just this. By doing a blog I thought that I would be able to zoom in on one character and really put myself in their shoes an examine the way they were feeling in specific scenes.

I chose to do Telemachus because I think his life and upraising was extremely interesting. He was raised being taught that his dad was out there somewhere and could come home at anytime, or never at all. I think his life was also interesting because of the rollercoaster ride he went through. His childhood was a very low point in his life and then suddenly finding his father had come home, but not knowing if it was the real him or an imposter. Then he had to slaughter millions of people until he finally had his happy family together. The experiences that he went through were all very intense. He had a lot of weight on his shoulders throughout the book, knowing that he had to protect himself, his mother, and the palace from the suitors that would never leave.

I enjoyed writing a blog in the end because of the ways that it allowed me to focus in on one character and really examine his role in the book but I also found the blog difficult at times. Choosing the blog I had a hard time keeping myself from just reviewing the plot instead of adding insight. I also had a hard time making sure that I didn’t repeat myself because throughout the book Telemachus revisits many of the same feelings in different scenes but I had to make sure I brought something different to the table in each blog post or paragraph. Overall I think this project was very beneficial to me and helped me better understand the Odyssey and many of the characters within it. I think my strongest point in this blog is the insight i was able to incorporate to my journal entries. I think if i had a chance to go back and change something i might ass more cultural aspects from what it was like in his society back then such as the language.

For my blog page i chose the colors i did to represent something and the layout i did to show where telemachus might have been writing these things down. I chose the color purple as my background color because purple is the color for royalty and telemachus is prince of ithaca. I chose the lined paper as the design because i chose to have telemachus writing these entries in his journal,