What can happen from an imbalance between a want and need?

My dog sleeps beside my bed he wakes me up in the middle of the night to let him out. complete, run-on sentence or comma splice

Read the excerpt from the odyssey; 'o cyclops! would you feast on my companions? puny am i, in a caveman's hands? how do you like the beating that we gave you, you d(arn)ed cannibal? eater of guests under your roof! zeus and the gods have paid you! ' according to this excerpt, odysseus (a)is fearful of the cyclops. (b)is prideful and overly confident. (c)has been weakened by the cyclops. (d)has regrets about staying on the island.

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?