Paragraph 5   Our final paragraph discusses writing effective conclusions. Key issues are: overstating your case, summarizing your paper's central points, writing consistent conclusions, revising your original claims, and avoiding anticlimactic conclusions.

    Contrary to popular belief, trickery is obviously a heroic quality in The Odyssey: Odysseus uses it, Telemachos uses it, Athene uses it, and most importantly, Penelope uses it. Despite the fact that The Odyssey is primarily Odysseus's story, Penelope emerges as the true hero of the story. Even though Homer's world was male-dominated, Homer himself shows women to be the true heroes of their society. Why? One could conclude that Homer was a man ahead of his time, a feminist before the word was even invented. Whether this is true or not, we may never know.