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Big Fish vs. The Odyssey

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  • Circus
    Aeolia
  • Name three ways Edward going to the Korean War is like Odysseus going to the Trojan War
    drafted, presumed dead, sneaks behind enemy lines, missing with no word home, etc.
  • Polyphemus
    Karl the Giant
  • Name three ways Will Bloom is like Telemachus.
    both the son, both did not know their father, both search for their father and answers about their life, etc.
  • Hades
    Spectre
  • Name three ways Edward Bloom is like Odysseus.
    both heroes of the story, both go missing, both went on adventures, both were away from home for a period of time, etc.
  • Red Charger
    Odysseus' Ship
  • Calypso
    Jenny Hill
  • Penelope
    Sandra Templeton
  • Jenny's house was surrounded by cats
    Circe's palace was surrounded by mountain lions and wolves
  • Lotus-Eaters
    Spectre
  • Charybdis
    flood
  • Trojan War
    Korean War
  • Edward telling his stories to his son and Josephine
    Odysseus telling his stories to King Alcinous and the Phaecians
  • Trees in the Forest outside Spectre
    Laestrygonians
  • Tiresias
    Swamp Witch
  • Circe
    Swamp Witch/Jenny Hill
  • Car in Tree
    Odysseus hanging from fig tree over Charybdis
  • Scylla
    Ping and Jing or the conjoined twins
  • Bag of Winds
    Time Speeding Up
  • Name three ways Sandra Templeton is like Penelope.
    both wives of the heroes, both remain loyal, both refuse to believe their husband is dead, etc.
  • Robbing the Bank
    Raiding Ismarus
  • Edward Bloom
    Odysseus
  • Norther Winslow
    Elpenor
  • Aeolus
    Amos Calloway
  • Athena
    Dr. Bennett
  • Telemachus
    Will Bloom
  • Don Price
    Suitors
  • Ithaca
    Ashton
  • What is a "fish tale"?
    a myth
  • Mermaid/Woman in the Water
    Sirens
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