Direct object is the thing being acted upon. In this case, meal is the direct object of the "cooked" verb.
2. Falling, brilliance, and doom
In the story, it tells us that even though many Cyclopes live on the island, they don't have a community. They do not get together. The live separately not caring about the others. The text says, "Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting,no consultation or old tribal ways,but each one dwells in his own mountain cavedealing out rough justice to wife and child,indifferent to what the others do. . . ."<span />
