The direct object in the sentence is house, because it is the only noun.
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yes you did correctly you can not turn the hands of time
You would need to be more specific for a good answer. But I’ll take a shot in the dark and say you are talking about when Odysseus tells her he must leave again after just arriving in Ithaca. It’s ironic because the whole book was about getting home, and showed how much Odysseus missed his home, just for him to leave as soon as he arrived.
I would say the map, because the speaker uses extra detail to describe what's confusing about the map.
