Lines 1–14: What is this essay about? Is the essay written in the first-, second-, or third-person point of view? What kind of language does the author use? Is it formal or casual, technical or personal, funny or serious, simple or complicated? Lines 12–14: How does Noda organize ideas?

Lines 23–31: Based on these lines and the subheading “I am racially Japanese,” what kind of organizational pattern is used?

Lines 43–44: Are these sentences simple or compound? How are the sentences different?

Story: Growing up Asian

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?