What are three instances from book 12 of the Odyssey that proves Odysseus is being a hero?

Odysseus lives to hear
the song of the sirens and tell of it, as no other mortal has done before him.He is wise enough
to obey the advice of Circe, an immortal goddess, who has offered him instructions (and many
tragic Greeks were not wise enough to listen to their betters).The sirens sing to him,
"Never has any sailor passed our shores in his black craft / until he has heard the honeyed
voices pouring from our lips [...]."All the other men who have heard the sirens sing have
perished on the rocky shores of their island.Odysseus's obedience and bravery here render him
heroic and able to do something never done before.

When it comes time to
pass Scylla, Odysseus could hide below decks and keep himself safe from her jaws.However, he
instead "don[s] [his] heroic armor, seized long spears / in both [his] hands and marched
out on the half-deck," hoping to see and slay the monster before she has a chance to devour
his men.He could protect himself and stay hidden, but he takes his...

Why do people arrive at Gatsbys house uninvited in The Great Gatsby?

People arrive at 's
house without an invitation because his parties are basically a come-one, come-all sort of
affair. He does not really issue invitations; he just opens up his house every weekend and
people are free to comeat least until he is reunited with , and then the parties stop because
she does not like them.

says that, on the night he first goes over to
Gatsby's house, he was "one of the few guests who had actually been invited." Gatsby
had sent his chauffeur over with an invitation earlier that day. People usually do not get
invited to the parties, though; they simply show up. Nick describes the way they would jump into
their cars and arrive on Long Island, sometimes introduced by someone who does actually know the
host, and sometimes coming and going without having met or known Gatsby at all. He says that
they come to Gatsby's house "with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of
admission."

Once there, people act like they might at an "amusement
park," Nick says, and they drink and dance and party and carouse until into the wee hours
of the morning. In short, people arrive without invitation because they can, because this is the
custom, and because Gatsby seems to be hoping that Daisy will saunter into one of his parties
one dayaslater explains.

How did Santiago feel when he spent a lot of money in Africa in The Alchemist?

When
he's in Africa, Santiago doesn't spend too much money but is somewhat careless with it, and
ultimately, it is stolen from him. The man who steals it from him pretends to be his friend who
wants only to protect him from thieves. Unfortunately for Santiago, his new friend turns out to
be one...

In 1984, why does Winston consider himself a dead man in chapter 2?

reflects on the fact that he is already a dead
man after he begins writing his thoughts down in
his diary. Winston
understands the decisive step that he has taken when he begins to formulate

his negative thoughts towards the government. Winston then writes, "Thoughtcrime does
not
entail death: thoughtcrime IS death" (, 36). In Orwell's dystopian
society, the Thought
Police are an efficient, enigmatic government force that
tracks down dissidents and arrests
them. Now that Winston has made the
decision to write his rebellious thoughts in his diary, it
is only a matter
of time before he is arrested. Winston is under constant surveillance in

Oceania, and his revolutionary beliefs will not go unnoticed. Winston is continually
reminded
that he is being watched every time he sees the Partys posters,
which read, "BIG BROTHER IS
WATCHING (Orwell, 4). Later on in the novel,
Winston forms a relationship withand becomes
increasingly rebellious.
Eventually, Winston is captured in his rented room above Charrington's
shop
by the Thought Police. He is then tortured until he becomes a genuine supporter of
Big
Brother.

Are there some instances in which a poem's title might not be that important? How do you decide whether you need to look closely at the title?

That is a
good question. A good starting point is to ask whether the title was assigned by the author or
by a later editor.

Titles were generally not important in antiquity and the
middle ages. Authors rarely assigned titles to their own poems; most of the titles we have were
created by later editors (e.g. Sappho's "Ode to Anactoria"). Works were generally
referenced by their incipit (first line) or position in a collection (e.g. Catullus XVI is
the...

Why does Blanche avoid strong light?

In s
, Blanche DuBois
makes a habit of always avoiding bright light, which is
symbolic of her
avoidance of reality. Blanche cannot face the truth about her life and
herself,
so she makes up lies. However, Blanche is unable to avoid her
impending breakdown. No amount of
shading of the truth will make it go
away.

One fear that Blanche covers up is
getting older.
She is so afraid that she will end up alone as she ages that she tries to
appear
younger. To keep up the fa§ade that she is still a young, beautiful
woman, she tries to remain
in as much darkness as possible. She even tells
Mitch that Stella is the older sister, as she is
obsessed with youth. She
covers the lamp, creating a shadowy dim light in the room. She refuses
to go
out during the daylight, preferring instead the semi-darkness, which shades every
wrinkle
or feature that would betray her true age.

The
darkness also covers up the
truth about Blanches past. Symbolically, she
remains in the dark because she wants her past to
stay hidden. She is
tormented by her role in her husbands suicide. She has also had
inappropriate
relationships with young men. She has lost the familys home. She has been
released
from her job. Her mind is breaking down. Light hurts Blanche because
it forces her to face
reality.

The only good light in
Blanches life was when she was young. When
she fell in love with Allan, it
was like a blinding light was turned on. When she lost him,
that light was
turned off, and she has never been able to recapture it. She has spent her
life
tryingand failingto find that light again.

Thought Crime O'Brien's knowledge of Winston's thoughtcrimes plays a large role in these chapters. How does O'Brien use Winston's thoughtcrimes during...

also
believes that rebellion lies in the hands of the Proles.  The photo is used against him because
he did see it, but he is made to doubt even this.  He becomes inable to determine what is real
and what isn't, which is exactly what the Party wants.  They constantly change the country with
whom they are at war, they change the chocolate rations and expect people to be grateful, they
rewrite history so often that no one knows the real truth.