What effect is achieved by the author's choice to begin this story with a description of Aylmer's "troubled countenance"?
A) It makes the reader feel troubled, as well.
B) It causes the reader to question his sympathies.
C) It makes the reader wonder why Alymer feels troubled.
D) It causes the reader to feel sympathy for Alymer's wife.

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?

In the conclusion of the radio broadcast war of the worlds, orson welles:

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.