The theme that occurs most often in the books is value what you have, stay loyal, and trust other people. This occurs many times throught the book for example in book 11 when Achilles travels to the land of the dead and draws the spirits using blood. In that book odyeseus realizes that being on earth is much better tha in the land of the dead. In lines 556-558 Achilles says I'd rather slave on earth for another man some dirt poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive than rule down here over all the breathless dead. That quote illustrates how odyeseeus values his life on earth. He said that he would rather be a slave to a nobody than live down here. So he values his life that he has right now and what he had before was better than anything down their. So he values what he has.
In book 16 their is also a part in which my theme is in action. As telemachus goes to fumeaus barn and sees a stranger he does not realize that that is his father odyseeus. And the he soon discovers that it is his father he quickly begins to create a plan to kill the suitors. Odyeseeus then tells telemachus that that is not the plan. Telemachus does not trust odyseeus new plan. As in lines 270-300on page 346-347 telemachus first doughts his plan and says "but what you have just said dumbfounds me". So as you can see he does not trust his plan. On line 298 Odyseeus says "trust me" the narrator then says "his seasoned father reassured him". So telemachus then shows trust in other people. Even though you may not think they are right still trust them.
In book 21 a theme is also put to use. As odyeseeus comes back to ithaca to reclaim his reign as king the suitors are they and they have betrayed him. They are their trying to string the bow and then odyessues comes out and strings the bow and shoots it thru all the little holes and kills all the suitros.In line 475-480 on page 438 odyeseeus says "my strenghts not broken yet not quite as frail as the mocking suitors thought. So as you can see odyeseeus killied those men because they doubted hime and did not stay loyal to him as king.
In paragraphs 2 & 3, your quotes don't really show the value of trust. In paragraph 3, for instance, Odysseus simply says that he is stronger than the suitors thought, which is not really about trust. Your writing is also hampered by grammatical errors.
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