From this passage, odious means?
choices: tedious, hateful, difficult, or harmless.
ODIOUS means HATEFUL.
Rene detested the Nazis whom he likens to swine.
Detest is synonymous to hate. Swines are also known as hogs.
Because Rene associates the detestable Nazis with the hogs, he finds feeding the hogs a hateful task.
Odious is also defined as extremely unpleasant and repulsive. Thus, doing an odious task is hateful.
Beah and his companions experience hunger and thirst the likes of which none of them had encountered before. They scavenge abandoned farms and even stooped to assaulting a little boy who had two boiled ears of corn to himself. The boy’s parents, rather than confronting the young men, instead give them each an ear of corn; Beah assumes pity saved them from punishment. Beah feels guilty about their pillage, but accepts that they had no other option.
<span>"...that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, " I think this line suggests irony that those who are deeply in debt and very poverty stricken should consider selling their kids for food ie this suggestion is unexpected and surprising and shocking and probably deliberately tongue in cheek.</span>
Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery and figurative language and the tone is very dark and grim. Hope this helps:)
The correct answer is; B.
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Hope this helped! :)