In the context of the poem, how are the lotos flowers influencing the sailors' actions? Do you think the sailors would be so willing to ignore everything going on around them if it weren't for the flowers? What do you think are the advantages of the sailors continuing to eat the flowers? What are the disadvantages?

In “the things they carried”, why is jimmy unsure when martha calls the pebble “a token of her truest feelings”

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Which component is necessary to create an effective and debatable thesis statement