Odyssey Essay

When his two nearest companions pulled away his clothes and looked at his neck, they had said him a solemn farewell in expectation of his death. We'll meet again in a better world, they said. He was classed among the dying and put aside on a cot to do so. But he failed at it. After two days, space being short, they sent him on to a regular hospital in his own state. All through the mess of the field hospital and the long grim train ride south in a boxcar filled with wounded, he had agreed with his friends and the doctors. He thought he would die. About all he could remember of the trip was the heat and the odors of blood and of shit, for many of the wounded had the flux. (Frazier, 4)

Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain opens with an intelligent and reserved confederate soldier named Inman lying in a Virginia hospital bed recovering from war wounds. Shattered by the violence he has witnessed while fighting in the Confederate army, Inman escapes from the......

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Title: Respect Of The Gods In The Odyssey
Approximate Word Count: 1154
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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