Briefly describe how the Radleys are different from the other people in Maycomb. In to kill a mockingbird

The prefix of the italicized word in the sentence is rather difficult

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

What details of the first two paragraphs convey a sense of the ordinary, behind the scenes routines of film critics?