What does the speaker mean when he compares humans to trees?
a) the speaker claims that it is better to remain rooted in one place to truly bloom.
b) the speaker suggests that humans, like trees, must give freely to thrive.
c) the speaker expresses the idea that both trees and humans are unable to give to every deserving creature.
d) the speaker makes the comparison to show that humans should give only to those who are deserving.
eliminate

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?