The Odyssey Reading Comprehension Questions Part 1 Part 1 1) Where is Odysseus located at the poem’s beginning? 2) What is a muse? And why is Homer asking the muse to‚ “sing in me?” 3) Who is lord Helios? 4) What did Odysseus’ men do to lord Helios? 5) Who is Odysseus’ father? 6) Where is Odysseus from? (What city is his home?) 7) Who is Calypso? Who is Circe of Aeaea? 8) What did Circe do to Odysseus? 9) Who were the Cicones and what does it sound like
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The Greeks define nobility as a person who would go and fight for their country‚ a person who has values of bravery‚ intelligence‚ strength and keen judgment. He must also be a person who the gods respect. In Homer’s epic poem‚ The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is portrayed as noble according to mythology legend. The American Heritage dictionary defines noble as a man often of divine ancestry‚ a man who is endowed with great courage and strength who is celebrated for his bold exploits and favored by the gods
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some people think that the books are better. Many of the movies have won awards along with the book that it was made after. Most of the time the books have more details than the movies and are able to create a better plot for the people to follow The Sleepy Hollow is the first of the three books that have a good comparison between the story and the movie. During The Sleepy Hollow one of the main differences is that in the movie the headless horseman is real and in the book‚ the horseman is the town’s
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Freak By: hp This book project is on The Cirque du Freak. Cirque du Freak was an amazing book that was made into a movie in 2009. The use of this essay is to tell you the differences between the movie and the book. The book and the movie were not really the same at all. The first difference is the movie is not just called Cirque du Freak it is called Cirque du Freak the Vampires assistant. In the book Darren Shan the main character narrates the book while in the movie it is some omniscient
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Westing Game book and movie‚ “Get a Clue” are quite similar and different from each other. In my opinion‚ the book was more appealing to read than to watch the movie. It was long‚ suspenseful and frequently changed point of view between characters. Instead‚ the movie was short‚ straight-forward‚ and focused mainly on Turtle Wexler. Although the plot‚ characters that remained‚ and storyline were similar. The similarities between the book and the movie were that the ten out of sixteen book characters
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cinema of a certain era. The epic poems‚ The Iliad and Odyssey‚ give scholars and historians an idea how the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. By reading the two "novels‚" the reader is able to experience the three thousand years old society of Homer. The various similarities between our society and the societies depicted in the Iliad and the Odyssey are surprising profuse. To name a few: the superfluous violence in Iliad and Odyssey‚ the characterization of Odysseus‚ the obscure use of
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author that wrote this book has written over twenty other books. The author has a lot of experience on writing books. The author is Jeanne DuPrau and the book is The City Of Ember. The city is an underground city that is trying to keep the human race alive. The main characters in the book The City of Ember have many similarities and differences between the movie and book. The book and movie are similar because there are some parts that are in both the movie‚ and the book and it makes it more fun
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people to appreciate the freedom to read books. It explores the theme of having a negative dystopian society that is controlled by a ruling government and the censorship of books. Fourteen years later the book was adapted into a movie version directed by Francois Truffaut. The movie was made so that readers have a visual way to look at it rather than reading it. There were major differences in the movie which excluded important details provided by the book‚ concerning the characters‚ and the advanced
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Books and movies can be very similar but different at the same time. The contrast between the story of “A Rose for Emily “from the movie and the book is quite the difference. In the story “A Rose for Emily”‚ by: William Faulkner‚ there’s many differences between the movie and book that make both very unique. One way the book was different from the movie is how in the book it states‚ “One of us lifted something from it‚ and leaning forward‚ that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils
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Westing Game book and movie contain many similarities and differences that are definitely worth exploring. The Westing Game novel and movie are mainly centered around heirs trying to solve the murder of Sam Westing. The novel is about 16 heirs living in a big apartment building‚ and in the end‚ every character has changed into a better person. Also‚ in the book‚ all the heirs are determined to find out who murdered Westing. In
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