1. PART A: Which statement expresses a main theme in the short story?
A. During difficult times, it's important for family members to come together and
work towards a common goal.
Sometimes the best support comes from people who are outside of your family.
C. It is easier to blend in with the crowd than to stand out and share what makes
you unique.
D. People often don't realize the significance of what they have until they've lost it.
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( the white umbrella by Gish Jen)

Why do people live together and form societies

How is dr. lanyon characterized in the excerpt? as friendly as arrogant as wise as mournful

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?