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In this excerpt, Odysseus is compared to a bat. The excerpt features a simile that states ""I sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough."" In the first person, Odysseus is comparing himself to a bat that is trapped. He has no way to escape. His circumstances are foreboding, and his prospects are dim."
You have to let me know what the story is called but use the app shmoop to help you with response all you have to do is put the name of your book
Of great red monsters making as to fight him... C.
It was around the 1960s Im 95% sure.