The odyssey: central ideas and character motivation, part 2

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read the excerpt from the odyssey.

what two things are being compared in this epic simile?

then,

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his chores being all dispatched, he caught

another brace of men to make his breakfast,

and whisked away his great door slab

to let his sheep go through--but he, behind,

reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.

the door slab to the cyclops' sheep

the stone to a quiver

a brace of men to breakfast

the cyclops' chores to the men

The letter explains the treatment of prisoners of war. of 3.6 million prisoners of war, only several hundred thousand are still able to work fully. a large part of them has starved, or died, because of the hazards of the weather. . the camp commanders have forbidden the civilian population to put food at the disposal of the prisoners, and they have rather let them starve to death. –letter to defendant wilhelm keitel from alfred rosenberg the letter prosecutors at the nuremberg trials prove that soviet prisoners were a) treated well despite the conditions. b) treated poorly. c) subject to execution. d) subject to crimes against peace.