Read the excerpt from the odyssey. “stranger, you are no longer what you were just now! your cloak is new; even your skin! you are one of the gods who rule the sweep of heaven! be kind to us, we’ll make you fair oblation and gifts of hammered gold. have mercy on us! ” what is the symbolism of the new cloak in this excerpt? the new cloak represents odysseus’s love for his wife, penelope, and his grown son, telemachus. the new cloak represents odysseus’s great wealth and successful journey. the new cloak represents odysseus’s transformation from a weary traveler to the returning hero. the new cloak represents odysseus’s changed character from innocent young man to power-hungry ruler.

In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battle-field of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.