Sunday, December 4, 2016

In Book 17, there is a lot of foreshadowing of what will happen to the suitors. Find three examples of this (quote them in your post), and explain what you think this means for the fate of the suitors.

There are many times where the future of the suitors is brought up in book seven. The quotes seem to be predicting the death of the suitors. The first quote is, "sowing death for the suitors." That quote seems to be saying something along the lines of planning the suitors death. The next quote is from the part of book seven where Odysseus was going to ask the suitors for food to see which one of them was a decent person. Then Odysseus said, "Not that the goddess had the slightest intention of sparing any of them." That quote was saying that even if there was a decent suitor Athena was still not going of spare any of them from her punishment. The last quote is, "That means death will surely come to the suitors." That quote was from when Telemachus sneezed and that was a sign to Penelope that death would come to the suitors.

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