Which lines from the text best support this theme? One theme found throughout The Odyssey is that

good leaders take responsibility for those in their

charge

"The wind that carried west from Ilium

brought me to Ismarus, on the far shore,

a strongpoint on the coast of Cicones.

I stormed that place and killed the men who fought."

O "I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships,

tied them down under their rowing benches,

and called the rest: All hands aboard;

come, clear the beach and no one taste

the Lotus, or you lose your hope of home."

O He drew to his fist the cruel head of an arrow for

Antinous just as the young man leaned to lift his

beautiful drinking cup, embossed, two-handled,

golden: the cup was in his fingers:

the wine was even at his lips and did he dream of

death?

O "Spare your

B- “I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships,

tied them down under their rowing benches,

and called the rest: All hands aboard;

come, clear the beach and no one taste

the Lotus, or you lose your hope of home.”

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.