You are Odysseus. Write a 500-word persuasive letter to Zeus asking him for safe passage home. You, Odysseus, have had to endure unimaginable crises while attempting to sail home to Ithaca. Imagine that your last chance to arrive home is to argue your situation and plead with Zeus to be merciful and offer his assistance.

I hope this letter is finding you well, unlike myself. Im sending this letter to you with hope you would find compassion towards me, and provide me with a safe journey home. You have seen my displeasure, the evil i have encountered and fought with, toiled through and survived past the attempts on my life, and the obstacles that have blocked my path. I have faced adversity after adversity, all to still end up short from the one thing i have desire most in life, to return home - to see my son, and my wife, even just a glance before i draw my last dying breath. I survived your hideous Sirens. I have stood strong through your raging Storms, and now I ask you to be merciful. Has all this torrment not been enough? Are your guests pleased? Now, if you're done toying, let me find my way, without your forsaken beasts following me at every turn. O Zues this can only end with you, for i am at my end. I can go no longer with just my own stregnth alone. If i could just have your mighty hand to lead my journey on. I have yet to see my wife and child in almost twenty years! My son may not even reconize his own fathers face, he will ignore the sound of my voice. You are my last hope. If you can not spare your powers to give my a safe passage home i ask of you this, just let them know that i tried. That i fought tooth and nail to get home to them, that i did not give up. They will be on my last dying breath. Just as they have been on my mind every hour we have been apart. That i loved them both with every fiber of my being.I know you are capable Zeus, the only one capable.

-With all the grattitude in the world,

Odysseus