The Book Nine Of The Odyssey

While movies are the laid back form of entertainment where people can sit back and enjoy with popcorn and snacks, books are a knowledgeable source where authors utilize the power of words to stimulate emotions from the reader and create vivid pictures. Movies are usually derived from books or the creator’s imagination. Hollywood have transformed writings on pages into motion pictures such as Paper Towns by John Green and some books from the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series by Rick Riordan. However, not all movie depictions do the story justice. Homer’s Book Nine of The Odyssey recounts the adventures of the hero Odysseus while he is lost at sea. It is no surprise that this exceptional epic is taken and reproduced in movie form, nevertheless after studying both mediums, I find that the book conveys heavier …show more content…
Both the book and the movie provide the audience with a description of Polyphemus; however, the movie version did not capture the same effects as the book. The Odyssey shows Polyphemus as the Cyclops who has a bulky figure with smashed-in nose, crooked teeth, and a beady eye. These features of the Cyclops evoke comments from the audience along the lines of “he is unappealing” because of the way his features are depicted in the scene. The Cyclops is able to maneuver the slab of rock to