Odysseus' hero's path

From books one and two Odysseus doesn't follow the hero's path. Odysseus is just gone and dissapeared form the face of the earth and no one knows what happened to him. First of all Odysseus has no speical birth, no call to advanture, and no belly of the whale. In the book Odysseus desides to go to war and then doesn't return. In other words he had no guide no call to advanture and no belly of the whale because he could have just not gone to war and the story would have never happened.

Telemachus' hero's path

I beleive that Telemachus is a hero who follows the hero's path. In the book Telemachus is guided by one of the gods to go and find his father by sailing out to two different countries. This shows resemblems to the hero's path because it is a mithical guide who perswades him to go out and try to find his father. Another thing that happened was once Telemachus steped onto the ship the winds took it to the distant lands he was going to. This ties in because is like the belly of the whale as in there is no turning back just like Telemachus can't get off the boat so he has to go now.

The Barefoot Bandit

A boy named Colten harris-Moore one day met someone who would later make him famous. Colten's mentor taught him how to pick locks and other skills he would need later. After that first theft there was no turning back for Colten, he was now sucked into the world of a theif. Later on he parted ways with his mentor and started to rob vacation homes on his own using the skills he was taught. After that Colten was robing more and more homes till one day his stash of all the things he stole was fond. Colten then fled and disapeared into the forest of the island. Some time after he stole an airplane and flew to the Bahamas to escape his fate on the island. his old mentor was arested and he told them that he might be in the Bahamas. They fond him and he tried to run away in a boat but they still cought him. He was then shiped back to the island and was convicted of robery of too many to count. He was then put in jail for his crimes.

real life hero Sir Ian McKellen

• Spiecal Birth

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Ian_McKellen
 Sir Ian McKellen was born right before WW2

• Supernatural guide

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/ian-mckellen.html
His first performances at Cambridge University

• Ultimate Boon

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354813/Sir-Ian-McKellen
Staring in J.R.R. Tolken's Lord of the Rings

• Master of Two Worlds

http://boingboing.net/2010/05/11/sir-ian-gandalf-mcke.html
Being able to fool a random person into thinking he is homeless