How do the author's choices regarding how to introduce the secondary character most impact the passage? the sea wolf

Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.

Before odysseus talks about the lotus-eaters and the cyclops, what other events does he refer to? a. the advances of suitors that his wife penelope must fend off b. the attack by poseidon on his ship c. the attack and raid on the land of the cicones d. the nights he spent inside the trojan horse

What is the most likely reason schlosser uses a direct quotation in this example excerpt from fast food nation