1. Initial: The initial situation is when Odysseus and his crew start their journey home. (Page 107: "'From that place we sailed onward much discouraged but glad to have escaped death, although we had lost good companions...But Zeus Cloudgatherer sent a nor'wester upon our fleet with a night rushed down from the sky. The ships were blown plunging along, the sails were split into shreds and tatters by the violence of the wind. We let down the sails in fear of death, and rowed the bare hulls to shore. There we lay two days and two nights on end, eating out our hearts with hardship and anxiety.") Reversal: