Review the passage. soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. they stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed. how does this passage create suspense? a-the readers don't know what the stones are there for. b-the men are talking about unusual things. c-each man is supervising his own children, but not the other children.

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.