Why doesn't Peter want to be adopted?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

Pls, i really need on this question?

What element does susan b. anthony include in this passage to strengthen her argument?