I wrote my bike has a head light ,home in the dark. ( that ,which ,whom)

Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

This passage from chapter 4 of story of my life is an example of which story of plot