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Metaphoric Morals
In the story The Odyssey by Homer, people can learn many things from Odysseus' travels. In the Land of the Lotus Eaters, the reader learns not to do drugs and not to give up long term goals for short term pleasures. In the land if the Cyclopes, the reader learns to not be greedy and not to overstay his or her welcome. In Aeolea, the reader can learn to not be greedy. Homer knows how to hide messages without being obvious.
The Land of the Lotus Eaters is a place without time. The Lotus was "so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what happened to them" (105). The people there were very kind and "did no hurt" (105).They would eat the lotus flowers and lose all motivation of leaving. Even Odysseus' crew "wept bitterly" (105) about leaving...