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Paper(using present tense) Ex. Odysseus goes to ... The Odyssey Final Paper Comparisons 2/3/11 1. Comparing the story of Odyssey to the Greek culture, how veal is the book? 2. Comparing two different translations of the same book? (I)/(X) 3. Comparing to "Big fish" The Odyssey Final Paper

2# present with a partner on a Book (XVI) 16-24 Tench, Discussion, question, a guiding theme. (Half the class) How long?

Iris Zhang Perceive of a better life At the end of the movie, here is a very interesting sentence. “ Have you ever heard a joke so many time and you forgot why it's funny. But when you hear it again, suddenly, it’s new. A man tells a story many times and it becomes a story. That’s my father’s final joke” (The Big Fish movie). No matter if the stories that the father told his son were truth or not, his son believed and understood him at last. Because one of the most precious things in the world--Love doesn’t need “the truth” to be the background. The perception of life doesn’t need to be reality. At fist, the son, Will Bloom doesn't understand why his father keeps telling people stories that were just fairy tales (He thinks) because in his father’s stories, they are filled with giant man, werewolf, and mermaid, etc. He thought he was an adult now and he doesn’t need to listen to those stories again and again. When Edward asked Will,"what do you want me to be?” Will looked at his father and said,” I just want you to be yourself.” Because of that, his relationship with his father cracked. But when Will found out how his father and Jenny met and Jenny told him how much his father loves him. He began trying to understand his father, and then he knows that even though the stories are mostly fiction and full of modification, it’s just his father’s life's attitude. Edward imagines himself to be the big fish, and thinking he as a great travelers. He doesn’t want to be a small fish, which lives in a small pond. He as the big fish swims to the ocean, exploring he thinks what are the most attracted in his life. Such as being friend with the giant, working in the circus just wants to get to know who is the girl that he wants to marry (Big Fish movie). Actually, in my opinion, some scenes in the movie are similar to Odysseus. For example, the giant man who eats sheep as well as the giant man in the book. the difference is that in the book, it's actually a giant monster which only has one huge eye and not friendly at all. (Homer 142 . line397) Also the people in Specter were very friendly to Edward and they all wanted Edward to stay here. This is related to the part of the book where the nymph Kalypso kept Odysseus on the island until Hermes told her if she didn’t release Odysseus, Zeus would give her punishment. But the difference is Kalypso forced Odysseus to stay with her even he never fell in love with her. (Homer 90 - 93) Both Odysseus and Edward Bloom have magical journeys. But the difference between these two people is Odysseus always thinks his journey is full of sorrow and suffering, and it is. His heart is filled with lamentation and pain. Edward is the opposite of Odysseus. His whole life is full of passion, so lively and filled with sunshine. He wishes his son to have has an optimistic view of his son's life. Whenever he goes through something, even death, he never loses his innocence and the joy of life. The power of myth reduces the busy rhythm of life and learning,pulling us from the reality to fiction, giving our heart a peaceful and quiet place to get rest, keeping always pure and beautiful creatures in our mind. Just like Edward Bloom who infected each individual around him, let him or her feel and touch the beauty of the world. At last, he becomes his own stories and the myth of him shall pass down to the next lives.

rabbit and dog Differences: The dog not only could give people happiness, but also could lead the blind man and save people from different accidents. Such as earthquake, fire- accident and flood, etc. Neither the rabbit, they could only be played and can not save people's life.
 * Point--Why people like dog better than rabbit?
 * Evidence-- similarities: they are all mammal and they are all friendly and cute
 * Expand-- There are 100 people filled a form and 99% people said dog is better than rabbit. A professor who is a expert and he had a speech and he talked about the advantages about dogs and analysis that dogs are much better than rabbits.
 * Response-- What I think because dogs can help people and his lives are also much longer than rabbits, so i rather choose dogs.

P oint( state a main point) E vidence ( Quotes) T erms / Techniques E xpand/ Elaborate (unpacking) R esponse ( Personal connection)

Compare/ Contrast Paper Guidelines Point-- O and A (Oedipus and Antigone) (Apple&Orange) 1. similarities 2. differences by story

strong hook or a quote clearly stay into the Point putting the question
 * Introduction ( Why is this important to you/ Give some context?)

1. Apple-- everything you know about the apple ---grown states(from), Price, Size 2. Orange-- the same as apple 3. connects A+O --Preferences of color, size, price --Personal conection (1) young VS old. ( old people prefer orange because it is soft) -- Based on the these, I prefer ( similarities)
 * Body Paragraph

Conclusion Response to you own opinion ( new ideas)

I'm young, so I also prefer apples, but also orange is good, too.