80 POINTS Write an informative essay analyzing the role of the Odysseus’ journey in contemporary culture. Include a description of the elements of the hero’s journey and analyze how those elements are reflected in a contemporary hero story or movie. Compare contemporary hero journeys to those you read in Ulysses' journey as found in Bulfinch’s Mythology. Finally, analyze the popularity of hero journeys in culture today. Your paper should include a thesis statement, key points, supporting evidence, and a conclusion. Follow the rules of grammar and usage. All of your sources should be correctly cited, using the format found in the MLA Style Guide format for in-text citations and providing a works-cited list. to view the MLA Style Guide.

your response should be at least 500 words

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant