Read the excerpt from Part 4 of The Odyssey
In this excerpt, Odysseus is compared to a
O whirlpool
bat.
There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow
tossed me, and I sprang for the great fig tree,
catching on like a bat under a bough.
Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing,
the root and bole being far below, and far
above my head the branches and their leaves,
massed, overshadowing Charybdis pool.
root.
pool.

In the given excerpt, Odysseus is examined in contrast to a bat. The excerpt makes use of a simile which says ""I sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough."" infering from the first person, Odysseus is contrasting himself to a bat that is caught in a trap with no means of breaking free. His situations are apprehensive, and his chances are few."