Read the excerpt from the odyssey. ‘o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home: laertes' son, i mean, who kept his hail on ithaca. should destiny intend that he shall see his roof again among his family in his father land, far be that day, and dark the years between. let him lose all companions, and return under strange sail to bitter days at home.'

what motivates the cyclops to ask poseidon for the demise of odysseus and all his men? check all that apply.

he hates all the greeks because they destroyed troy.
he wants revenge for the loss of his eye
. he thinks all of mankind is weak and feeble.
he is angered by odysseus’s taunts.

What motivates the Cyclops to ask Poseidon for the demise of Odysseus and all his men is that he wants revenge for the loss of his eye, that he thinks all of mankind is weak and feeble and that he is angered by Odysseus's taunts.

The correct answers (since all of them apply) are 2, 3 and 4.

i guess you are missing the idea that has to be supported, am i right?

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.