Odysseus’ and Everett’s Journey The women were as beautiful as the sunrise in the early morning where there is a thin line of gold across the horizon of crimson red, not a single ray of light seen above the edge of the calm fresh ocean waters. It was hard for Odysseus to not accept their love, they wanted back. Women, who somehow fall in the path of Odysseus, were not ignored by him, and Everett’s wife is not even waiting for him to come back. The adventures of Odysseus from The Odyssey are more exciting than the ones of Everett from O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Although Everett is met with exciting, realistic events, Odysseus meets charming women, terrifying monsters, and deathly obstacles. Every man wants a women who charms them, attracts…show more content… In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Everett’s journey offers men that him and his boys had to avoid, but monsters are more exciting. Odysseus meets a cyclops named Polyphemus, a six headed sea monster named Scylla, and a dangerous whirlpool named Charybdis. These monsters are huge and out to kill him and are hard to avoid to stay alive. Polyphemus traps Odysseus and his crew in the cave, and Polyphemus is blinded when they escape, only after some were eaten by him. Scylla ate whatever got in her way, which had meant that most of Odysseus’ men had been eaten by her. Charybdis had shipwrecked all of Odysseus’ ships, leaving him casted on an island without a ship to sail home. On the other hand, Everett and his boys came across a guy with an eyepatch named Daniel, six men who had tried to kill them, and a flood that could have drowned them, but helped them stay alive. Everett and his boys stole money from Daniel so Daniel hit them with a branch to release his anger with them. The six men who tried to kill him were not very intimidating, and only talked about why they wanted them dead. Before Everett and his boys were going to be killed a flood had come and taken them away from the people who were to kill them. A story is interesting if you have something to run away from, like Everett did in his…show more content… Everett and his boys only came across unexpected obstacles that one would not think is dangerous at all. Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus had escaped many obstacles where he could have died such as: Polyphemus, Scylla, and Charybdis. Odysseus’ men had started to be eaten two by two by Polyphemus when trapped in his cave, and Odysseus had come up with a plan to blind Polyphemus and escape under his sheep in the morning. Scylla had eaten most of Odysseus’ men and Odysseus could have been next if he had not told his men to steer away from her, only to steer into Charybdis where Odysseus could have gotten stuck in with his ships if he had not escaped and cast upon a shore. During O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Everett and his boys had came across “obstacles” such as: recording a song for a man, saving a friend from the KKK, and being threatened to be killed. Everett and his boys needed money and one way they could get it from was recording a song for a man to put out on the radio, which was a good song but not something that is dangerous or fun. Their friend, Tommy, was in trouble with the KKK, and they easily saved him from being troubled. Three men had dug their graves while three men were about to kill them before a flood came and ruined the six’s plans. During
