The purpose of a note card in the index-card method of note-taking is to record quotations, paraphrases, summaries, and personal comments.
I'd say that all of these elements (Odysseus is returning to his home, Ithaca. He runs into a fierce storm. He has many adventures. He makes his way home.) are about D. heroism.
He managed to survive all of these events to return home to Ithaca.
He lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way.
defiant: to be oppositional or to resist something
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