The odyssey: central ideas and character motivation, part 2

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what motivates odysseus to tell a lie to the cyclops?

read the excerpt from the odyssey.

'my ship?

tremble,

poseidon lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,

broke it up on the rocks at your land's end.

a wind from seaward served him, drove us there.

we are survivors, these good men and i.

odysseus knows that poseidon is the cyclops' father.

odysseus is afraid the cyclops will steal their ship.

odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of

escape.

odysseus does not know what has happened to his ship.

odysseus does

Odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape.

Explanation:

Odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape.

Explanation:

In this passage, Odysseus realizes that he is trapped in the island of the Cyclops. He also knows that the Cyclops might try to prevent them from leaving. In order to ensure that they will be able to escape, Odysseus decides to lie to the Cyclops, thus protecting the secret of the ship, which is the men's only means of escape.

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.