Read the excerpt from the odyssey. neither reply nor pity came from him, but in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor. then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion— everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones. what can be inferred about the cyclops? he has gone hungry for a very long time. he is savage and brutal like a wild animal. he is terrified of odysseus and his men. he is very similar to his father, poseidon.