Answer: C) Hope and calmness
Explanation:
After reading the present task and doing some research on the displayed topic, I think it is fair to conclude that the motifs which are being examined through Santiago's dreams of the lions on the beach are hope and calmness, since in literature dreaming of lions symbolizes youth, strenght, happiness and hope.
Also, lions for Santiago's situation may be a way to reflect his relationship with the marlin for whom he had deep feelings for and feels pity that its death had to take place in order for him to survive.
Answer:
The correct answer is "friendship" and "connection".
Explanation:
The theme of a story is the message the author wants to convey, and tells us what the story is about.
In "Kabuliwala" we can say that two of those themes are friendship and connection.
Let's see each one:
- Friendship: This issue is reflected in the friendship relationship established between Mini and Rahamat, who was an Afghan street vendor. Despite having a great age difference, their friendship was great and they shared deep feelings.
- Connection: This theme portrays the connection between people. As we have already seen, the link between Mini and Rahamat was very strong, but once he goes to jail, Mini forgets about him and no longer knows him when he sees her again. This leads Rahamat to think that his real daughter has also forgotten him. These types of connections are the ones covered in this topic.
<span>B. Gilgamesh holds Humbaba’s head to signal his ultimate defeat of the beast Humbaba and, thus, his strength.
At first Enkidu and Gilgamesh are hesitant to go into the forest to kill Humbaba. However, eventually, Gilgamesh decides that he is strong enough to take on the beast. He does so and wins. Gilgamesh is proud of his victory and this show of strength. In the illustration, he demonstrates this by holding Humbaba's head.
The killing of Humbaba angers the Gods and Enkidu's life is taken as a result. This is the catalyst for Gilgamesh's great journey to find immortality as he comes to the realization the death is a possibility.</span>
<span>The narrator of the Odyssey invokes the Muse, asking for inspiration as he prepares to tell the story of Odysseus. The story begins ten years after the end of the Trojan War, the subject of the Iliad. All of the Greek heroes except Odysseus have returned home. Odysseus languishes on the remote island Ogygia with the goddess Calypso, who has fallen in love with him and refuses to let him leave. Meanwhile, a mob of suitors is devouring his estate in Ithaca and courting his wife, Penelope, in hopes of taking over his kingdom. His son, Telemachus, an infant when Odysseus left but now a young man, is helpless to stop them. He has resigned himself to the likelihood that his father is dead.
With the consent of Zeus, Athena travels to Ithaca to speak with Telemachus. Assuming the form of Odysseus's old friend Mentes, Athena predicts that Odysseus is still alive and that he will soon return to Ithaca. She advises Telemachus to call together the suitors and announce their banishment from his father's estate. She then tells him that he must make a journey to Pylos and Sparta to ask for any news of his father. After this conversation, Telemachus encounters Penelope in the suitors' quarters, upset over a song that the court bard is singing. Like Homer with the Iliad, the bard sings of the sufferings experienced by the Greeks on their return from Troy, and his song makes the bereaved Penelope more miserable than she already is. To Penelope's surprise, Telemachus rebukes her. He reminds her that Odysseus isn't the only Greek to not return from Troy and that, if she doesn't like the music in the men's quarters, she should retire to her own chamber and let him look after her interests among the suitors. He then gives the suitors notice that he will hold an assembly the next day at which they will be ordered to leave his father's estate. Antinous and Eurymachus, two particularly defiant suitors, rebuke Telemachus and ask the identity of the visitor with whom he has just been speaking. Although Telemachus suspects that his visitor was a goddess in disguise, he tells them only that the man was a friend of his father.</span>book 2<span>When the assembly meets the next day, Aegyptius, a wise Ithacan elder, speaks first. He praises Telemachus for stepping into his father's shoes, noting that this occasion marks the first time that the assembly has been called since Odysseus left. Telemachus then gives an impassioned speech in which he laments the loss of both his father and his father's home—his mother's suitors, the sons of Ithaca's elders, have taken it over. He rebukes them for consuming his father's oxen and sheep as they pursue their courtship day in and day out when any decent man would simply go to Penelope's father, Icarius, and ask him for her hand in marriage.
Antinous blames the impasse on Penelope, who, he says, seduces every suitor but will commit to none of them. He reminds the suitors of a ruse that she concocted to put off remarrying: Penelope maintained that she would choose a husband as soon as she finished weaving a burial shroud for her elderly father-in-law, Laertes. But each night, she carefully undid the knitting that she had completed during the day, so that the shroud would never be finished. If Penelope can make no decision, Antinous declares, then she should be sent back to Icarius so that he can choose a new husband for her. The dutiful Telemachus refuses to throw his mother out and calls upon the gods to punish the suitors. At that moment, a pair of eagles, locked in combat, appears overhead. The soothsayer Halitherses interprets their struggle as a portent of Odysseus's imminent return and warns the suitors that they will face a massacre if they don't leave. The suitors balk at such foolishness, and the meeting ends in deadlock.
As Telemachus is preparing for his trip to Pylos and Sparta, Athena visits him again, this time disguised as Mentor, another old friend of Odysseus. She encourages him and predicts that his journey will be fruitful. She then sets out to town and, assuming the disguise of Telemachus himself, collects a loyal crew to man his ship. Telemachus himself tells none of the household servants of his trip for fear that his departure will upset his mother. He tells only Eurycleia, his wise and aged nurse. She pleads with him not to take to the open sea as his father did, but he puts her fears to rest by saying that he knows that a god is at his side.</span>
