The two similes in the passage present an image of odyssey as

Battered but unruffled

Explanation:

Simile is a figure of language that refers to comparisons. In the excerpt shown in the question above, we can see the presence of the simile in the following lines:

Comparisons show that there is a man who is badly mistreated and suffering like a beggar, but he bears this miserable situation unbeatably like a stone. From this we can conclude that the two similes of the passage present an image of the odyssey as battered, but unruffled  .

the chinese communist party (ccp);

explanation:

the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.