Read the excerpt from the odyssey. 'cyclops, try some wine. here's liquor to wash down your scraps of men. taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried under our planks. i meant it for an offering if you would us home. but you are mad, unbearable, a bloody monster! after this, will any other traveler come to see you? ' what best describes why odysseus gave his wine to the cyclops? he is hoping the wine will cheer up the cyclops enough to set them free. he intends to make the cyclops his friend by being kind to him. he plans to distract the cyclops while his men escape through the entrance. he wants to trick the cyclops by getting him drunk and weakening him.

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Which most closely analyzes the information about briony's dreams of becoming an olympic athlete?

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”