By nights he would lie beside her, of necessity, in the hollow caverns, against his will, by one who was willing, but all the days he would sit upon the rocks, at the seaside, breaking his heart in tears and lamentation and sorrow as weeping tears he looked out over the barren water (Homer 5.152-158). the sweet lifetime was draining out of him, as he wept for a way home, since the nymph was no longer pleasing to him. During these years, Odysseus could not leave the island and his yearning for his wife, son, and home began to amplify, For example, Odysseus, in one case, is stranded on the island Ogygia where the nymph, Calypso, detained him for several years. Essentially, both Odysseus and Everett, continue on their hero’s journey through the sacrifices they make to be reunited with their families and with the hope of being with their loved ones again. Odysseus’s journey is similar to that of the main character Everett in O Brother, Where Art Thou, due to both Odysseus and Everett being kept from their families. Yet on his adventure to Troy, Odysseus is met with unforeseen circumstances that delay his return home to his family. Throughout books one through four of the Odyssey, Odysseus leaves his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus, to sail to Troy. According to the Odyssey, Odysseus was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero in Homer’s story.

The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are mythological stories that focus on the adventures and hardships the characters endure, which emphasize the sacrifices both characters make. In both mythological stories the characters make different types of monsters, emphasize the theme of fate, and contain male heroes according to the time period. Although the Odyssey is a Greek mythological story and O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an American mythological story, both characters go through a transformative process which molds them into heroes. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an American film that presents mythology and the specific concept of a hero’s journey.

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