The Odyssey

The book that I am currently reading in my language arts class is the Odyssey. Personally, I think that it is a really weird book. I don’t like reading books with English used in a different form like how this book is written. I learned that last year when I read the book kidnapped. By the way, that was probably the worst book I ever read. The Odyssey reminded me a lot of that book. I think that there are way to many characters with crazy names that I can’t remember. There are defiantly way to many connections that these characters have. Like when you discuss characters from a book and the teacher says you can remember them from so and so, and this person is connected to this person in this way. You know, the basic way to learn who the characters are. We’ve been going the Odyssey in a similar way, except the problem is there are way to many characters, who’s names I can’t spell or remember, along with how their connected to other characters in a certain way. That is either a blood connection or an event, and then when it just can’t get any worse, the events jump out at you. All of their stories have way to many events and places where those events take place. It would be like trying to read and understand the Dark Night. Don’t get me wrong, I thought that movie was amazing, but it was really hard to follow and understand what is happening. For those of you who saw it can you imagine even trying to understand it by reading it? That’s what the Odyssey is like. This book is one that I just don’t understand.