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276-288. 12 pages in 20 minutes.

Setting: "To the store-room they went; the man was inside hunting for weapons, but he did not hear them." (Homer 274)

Theme: Quest for discovery/reunion

Setting: Phaiacia (91) - Odysseus landed in Phaiacia after floating at sea for days, then is welcomed into the community and invited to watch sports.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Human vs Diety (70) "Why does Poseidon Earthshaker knock you about in this monstrous way, and persecute you so much."

Human vs Self - (68-69)

"On page 45, I sped up when the author was explaining what certain rooms looked like and what they had in them. I slowed down during dialogue sections. "

Protagonist: Odysseus. "How could I forget that fine fellow Odysseus, after all! He is almost one of us. Wise beyond mortal men, ready beyond all to offer sacrifice to the lords of the broad heavens." (Homer 5)

This book is hard to understand.

Hyperbole - "It was a steel-grey afternoon"(130)

Hyperbole - "You just about killed us!"(122)