Read this excerpt from the novel: "the carriage lamps shed a yellow light on a rough-looking road which seemed to be cut through bushes and low-growing things which ended in the great expanse of dark apparently spread out before and around them. a wind was rising and making a singular, wild, low, rushing sound." based on the language the author uses, what conclusion can be drawn about how this environment makes mary feel? a. she feels as if she has been here before. b. she feels a sense of opportunity and possibility. c. she feels loved and protected. d. she feels intimidated and frightened.

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.