Feeling the Power of the Book, The Odyssey

Nobody told me to read "Odyssey" - it was the greatest educational irony in my life. I finished high school for the first time during my time at West Concord Colonial Motors. I did not "understand it", it was not the most confusing among you, "I felt" I did. I felt its primitive power and emotional baldness. Human travels are active in my body. This makes me feel that I am part of a long, uninterrupted human world pursuing the truth and purpose of the world - especially in my world, a world that does not always have clarity and opportunity.

Last year, a British classicist, Mary Beard, published a thin book designed to document the power of a closed woman from the beginning of Western civilization. Her first example in "Women and power" comes from "Odyssey". She called it Western literature and "the first record of a man telling you to" silence a woman "." Works that form the basis of our norms - Christianity, the lights of the West - tend to erase women, not to talk, or to suspect them when doing so. Essentially, from storytelling to historical rewriting to lying about your news secretary, forming a story for your own purpose is one of the most powerful bars that a powerful tyrant can act It is one.

I first read The Odyssey in South Bend, Indiana. I am not ashamed that there are still many wonderful books I have not read yet. On the contrary, the fact makes me happy, makes me feel hungry and makes me live. I like to keep learning all the wonderful books I have not read yet. I do not say all the wonderful literature I have not written yet. As many literature is about the navigation of the space we live in, I also pointed my internal compass to the landscape of a remote place where I have not lived yet. I tend to think carefully about my life when I find suddenly unexpected happiness in a good book to further combine literature and landscape. It is a standard. So, I fell in love with the South Bend Odyssey; and like this perfect specular effect, this reduction changed the relationship between the city and me.