Why should family come first?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

What do the words “briefer,” “too beautiful to stay,” and “sleep of death” in the last stanza of wylie’s prom suggest about nature’s bounty and a life of plenty and ease?

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?