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Prompt #2: Make a plot prediction based on things that have happened so far, and then explain the reasoning that made you make that particular prediction.</span>
In the passage above, the author uses humor to comment on the foolishness of people. This scene is from the fourth chapter of "The War of the World" novel written by H.G. Wells titled "The Cylinder Opens". The author uses the passage above to describe the foolishness of people because they were very interested with the cylinder with no reason.
In Book 1, Odysseus is with Calypso on Ogygia.
The story takes place ten years after the Trojan War, and Odysseus is the only hero who hasn't yet returned home to his wife Penelope in Ithaca. He is basically trapped on the island of Ogygia, with the goddess Calypso, who fell in love with him and won't let him leave.
Earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she, She is the hopeful lady of my earth and <span>But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, Such as I love
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