The Odyssey (20pts)

Name: Ng, Janwyne Prinzess Janney L. Dr. Arnold O. Adante

What Would You Do?

Directions: In order to better understand some of the situations that characters in
The Odyssey will have to face, take a look at the following situations and decide
what you would choose to do if they happened to you. Write 3-4 complete
sentences for each situation.

1) You have been shipwrecked on an island. You meet a god/goddess who

falls in love with you and wants you to stay with them forever. In return
they will make you immortal. However, all you really want to do is get
home and be with your family. What would you choose? Why?

- If I were to experience being shipwrecked on an island and met a God/Goddess and asked me to
stay with them forever, I would probably agree because who doesn’t want to live forever right? but I
have a family that I need to get back to, a family who needs me and I wouldn't just abandon them
for the sake of living forever, yes you have the power of immortality but you are living in vain and
misery. I would rather go home and be with my family because if you are made immortal, you will
keep making the same mistakes for all of eternity. You will watch your family and friends pass on,
and you cannot be or go with them.

2) Your husband/wife went off to war with a group of people, many of whom
returned ten years later. Years go by and your husband/wife still hasn’t
returned. A group of men/women, who all assume your husband/wife must
be dead, start courting you, and have proposed. You can’t support yourself
and your son on your own, but you haven’t given up hope that your
husband/wife is still alive and will return. What do you do?

Answer:
I would rather continue my duty as an independent mother to my child, it may be
tough and difficult but I know it’s gonna be worth it and why would I wait for my
husband or wife to come home? It will just waste my time waiting and waiting. If they
really love me and our child they would come back but we’re not living in the past
anymore have a responsibility to do and that is to take care of our child and to make
sure that he is growing up to be a well mannered person.
 3) You are a young adult who lives with his mother. Your
father has been presumed dead. A large group of men
have come courting for your mother, who doesn’t want
to believe her husband is dead. Since she refuses to
pick one of them, they stay at your house, eating you
out of the house and home. They are loud and rude to
you. You want to get rid of them, but there is only one of
you, and dozens of them. What can you do?

If I were to encounter loud, rude men and doesn’t want to leave my mother alone,
I can suggest my mother that we leave the house or just call the police because why
not? but it’s the ancient we all know police doesn’t exist yet so I would suggest to leave
and ran away as far as we could just to get away from those awful bastards. We can’t
actually fight back because there are dozens of them and 2 of us so it’s not fair.