no these voices are real

Thanksgiving break was successful, in terms of pages read. Long car rides and quiet time led to lots of boredom, and as a result I devoured about a third of my book.
Smith has begun to dive into the more analytical portion of his book, shying away from his own family problems (occupying the first two chapters or so.) In chapter three, he starts to analyze other texts, and ironically enough, one of the novels he chooses to use is Homer’s The Iliad. Smith uses the soldiers in The Iliad to research his idea of voice hearing even further. He tries to prove that the “gods and goddesses” the characters pray to, are really just voices inside the character’s head.
As interesting as Smith’s idea was, I don’t really feel it was all that plausible. The gods and goddesses can’t be hallucinations of wounded soldiers, because Homer writes scenes involving the not so elusive gods, and naturally the reader wouldn’t assume that the characters made up the gods. Smith seems slightly desperate. He quite wants to prove his point, and seems to be grasping onto that could possibly help him. This section, truthfully, was a bit like reading a high schooler’s timed essay; it has a fine idea, and you can sort of weed out the good points, but it’s very disorganized and seems as though the student was panicking about the lack of time and just threw a bunch of points into the essay, hoping they would make sense. I just wish Smith proof read this section one more time, and added more to his supporting reasons.