When you write a class assignment, is it a good idea to consider the values and beliefs of teacher ? Should you also consider what arguments and what kinds of support will be most persuasive? Should you choose words and make stylistic choices to have the most persuasive effect on your teacher? How would you write differently to another audience, such as your best friend or a brother or sister?

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.