What motivates Odysseus's men to ignore his orders to leave quickly is 3. they want to eat, drink, and enjoy themselves before setting off on their journey.
They had been traveling the seas for such a long time, so when they finally got an opportunity to relax and unwind a bit, they did so. You can see in the excerpt above that Odysseus says that his men were "on stores of wine," meaning drunk - they wanted to feast and forget about the fact that they have to leave this island soon and venture on.
Freedom is a condition in which people have the opportunity to speak, act and pursue happiness without unnecessary external restrictions. Freedom is important because it leads to enhanced expressions of creativity and original thought, increased productivity, and an overall high quality of life.
The spoon gets bent and is probably irreversable
Huckleberry Finn has a deeper connection with Jim than with any other character in the novel. This contrast is especially striking given contemporary attitudes on race; though published after the Civil War, it recreates an antebellum Southern society that was completely organized around slavery. Relationships between white and black people were thought to be inevitably antagonistic, a master-slave relationship and not one of equals. Huck, however, does not see Jim as a servant; rather, he feels a kinship with him. Both are outcasts; Jim because he is a black man in a slave society, Huck because of his family situation. His father is abusive and alcoholic who doesn't care for him, and the two women who sometimes care for him try to change his character. Therefore he feels at odds in society, and has trouble fitting in. This makes him more sympathetic to Jim than to other white people.
