The Odyssey by Homer


retold by Chris R.

“Odysseus, where are you. At the very time I am going through ‘OOOOOOOOOOOOO’ birth you are not here!!!!!”cried Queen Penelope in pain.

At that very moment Odysseus was running faster than he ever had so he could get to his wife. He ran even faster when he came into earshot range of his wives cries. When he came into the camp he ran as fast as he could to his wives aid and then he picked her up and followed his servants to the place that they had made especially for his wives birth.

On the way there his wife, Queen Penelope was saying, “Odysseus, the baby is coming!”

Odysseus was so calm that he just said hold it for a little longer.”

Then they had a little boy and named him Telemachus.

A little after that Odysseus got called off to go to war with Troy and the Trojans.

At Troy they fought for 10 years the but in the 7th year Achilles got challenged to fight with Hector who was known for killing who he pleased and Achilles accepted and threw a spear that hit Hector right through the chest and then he yelled, “I killed Hector!”

Then he started dragging him behind the chariot that Hector was riding in. In that same year Achilles dies and they burn him.

Then Odysseus thought of a plan. The Trojans rode out one day and they saw the Trojan horse or at least that’s what they called it. When they took it into the city they drank and and then everyone in the city fell asleep and Odysseus and his army came out of the Trojan horse and started killing the people in the city that were sleeping.

After they defeated Troy they set sail back to Ithaca but on the way Poseidon the Earhtshaker made it so they land on the land of the Cyclops. When they landed there they said, “Let us go explore this strange island.”

When the men that were sent to explore the island came back with tons of cheese and said that they had plenty to live on in the cave. So they all went into the cave and and started eating as much as they could for they were very hungry.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, the Cyclops came back into the cave and said, “After all day off watching my sheep and looking for food I come back to my cave and my dinner is waiting for me! HA, HA, HA, HA.”

And with that the mighty Cyclops picked one of them up and slammed him up against the wall, tore him to pieces and at him in front of his companions. The rest of his companions gave the giant wine and played him soft music until he fell asleep the they stuck part of his walking stick into his eye and blinded him.

Then they set sail after escaping and when they were a good distance out Odysseus yelled at the giant, “Cyclops, the man who blinded you was not Nobody, his name was ODYSSEUS!!!!!!!!!!!”

With that the the mighty Cyclops let out a groan.

After that they landed on an island where there was a woman whose name was Circes and she was a goddess who hated man kind and she would turn them into wild animals. She did that to almost all the the crew except for the people who didn’t go.

Then Odysseus set sail after 5-years of with her. Then Odysseus said that they must go.

She let them leave and they landed on the island where the god of the wind lived and he gave them a bag with all the winds in it.

After they set sail the crew opened the bag and all the wind went out when they were very close to Ithaca. Then they went to the Under world and there they sought the blind prophet. When they found him he said that they would encounter the monster snake with 6 heads and they would encounter the monster who opened its mouth and swallowed anything that was above it.

Then they finally did encounter the monsters and they ate everyone aboard except Odysseus.

Then Odysseus landed on an island where the goddess Calypso lived and she kept him there for a long time and then Odysseus went home to Ithaca.

When he got there he and his son had to battle everyone who wanted to be the husband of his wife.

After they killed them all Odysseus and his wife lived a long time.

THE END


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