After leaving the island of the Lotus-Eaters, Odysseus and his men arrive on the island of the Cyclops. Polyphemus, the Cyclops, rather than providing Odysseus and his men with housing, eats six of them. Since he ate the men, Odysseus had to blind him. Through this instance, the audience learns that consequences follow for not being a hospitable host. When Odysseus’s men leave the Charybdis, Calypso holds Odysseus’s hostage on her island. Calypso amplifies a negative example of a host by keeping Odysseus captive for seven years. The audience learns that some hosts are not only inhospitable, but the host sometimes physically hurts or captures the guest. After opening the bag of wind, Odysseus and his men arrive at the island of the Laestrogians. When arriving on the island, the Laestrogians attack and consume Odysseus’s crew. The Laestrogians defiled the hospitality code showing that some hosts ignore the code, and they would rather take a punishment then be hospitable. All three of these examples exemplify that some hosts are not hospitable to their
After leaving the island of the Lotus-Eaters, Odysseus and his men arrive on the island of the Cyclops. Polyphemus, the Cyclops, rather than providing Odysseus and his men with housing, eats six of them. Since he ate the men, Odysseus had to blind him. Through this instance, the audience learns that consequences follow for not being a hospitable host. When Odysseus’s men leave the Charybdis, Calypso holds Odysseus’s hostage on her island. Calypso amplifies a negative example of a host by keeping Odysseus captive for seven years. The audience learns that some hosts are not only inhospitable, but the host sometimes physically hurts or captures the guest. After opening the bag of wind, Odysseus and his men arrive at the island of the Laestrogians. When arriving on the island, the Laestrogians attack and consume Odysseus’s crew. The Laestrogians defiled the hospitality code showing that some hosts ignore the code, and they would rather take a punishment then be hospitable. All three of these examples exemplify that some hosts are not hospitable to their