PLEASE I REALLY NEED HELP! Discussion Questions-
1. What is the relationship between aging, or the passage of time, and growing up? Are they the same thing? How are they different? Explain in detail.

2. What meaning do the chrysanthemums contribute to the story? Consider the significance of the figs and to whom Babette is conveying the message about the flowers.

3. How might Kate Chopin answer this question: At what point are you “grown up”? Drawing upon your own experiences and outside readings, how would you answer this question? Explain your answer in detail.

Story is-Ripe Figs
By Kate Chopin 1893

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,