Question

The Odyssey: Conflict and Theme, Part 4

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Connecting Conflict and Theme
Select the best choice from each drop-down menu.
What is the conflict in this passage?
What theme is best shown by the conflict?
There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow
tossed me, and I sprang for the great fig tree,
catching on like a bat under a bough.
Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing,
the root and bole being far below, and far
above my head the branches and their leaves,
massed, overshadowing Charybdis pool.
But I clung grimly, thinking my mast and keel
would come back to the surface when she spouted.
And ah! how long, with what desire, I waited!
till, at the twilight hour, when one who hears
and judges pleas in the marketplace all day
between contentious men, goes home to supper,
the long poles at last reared from the sea.
- The Odyssey
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Answer 1

Patience has its rewards

Step-by-step explanation:

The above answer is the correct answer.

From the passage, we discover that Odyssey exhibited patience. An evidence from the states that "And ah! how long, with what desire, I waited! till, at the twilight hour..." This depicts that Odyssey was actually patient.

Then it was revealed what reward he got from being patient, "when one who hears and judges pleas in the marketplace all day between contentious men, goes home to supper, the long poles at last reared from the sea."

So, we discover that despite the tossing from the billow and what he experienced under a bough, he still exhibited patience. The theme best shown by the conflict is that patience has its rewards.