Question

Read the following excerpt to help you answer the question below.

The Odyssey by Homer (excerpt)

Answer 1

"I am he, father, about whom you are asking—I have returned after having been away for twenty years. But cease your sighing and lamentation—we have no time to lose, for I should tell you that I have been killing the suitors in my house, to punish them for their insolence and crimes.”

"If you really are my son Ulysses," replied Laertes, "and have come back again, you must give me such manifest proof of your identity as shall convince me. ”

"First observe this scar," answered Ulysses, "which I got from a boar's tusk when I was hunting on Mount Parnassus. You and my mother had sent me to Autolycus, my mother's father, to receive the presents which when he was over here he had promised to give me. Furthermore I will point out to you the trees in the vineyard which you gave me, and I asked you all about them as I followed you round the garden. We went over them all, and you told me their names and what they all were. You gave me thirteen pear trees, ten apple trees, and forty fig trees; you also said you would give me fifty rows of vines; there was corn planted between each row, and they yield grapes of every kind when the heat of heaven has been laid heavy upon them. ”

Laertes' strength failed him when he heard the convincing proofs which his son had given him. He threw his arms about him, and Ulysses had to support him, or he would have gone off into a swoon;

Answer 2

In one to two well-developed paragraphs identify the conflict between Laertes and Ulysses? How is it resolved? Do you think it could be resolved in a different way?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Any ideas? Im really confused.

Answer 5

Ive done this twice...why dont you write somthing out...i will proofread it

Answer 6

umm okay.

Answer 7

Sorry, am not a fan of greek mythology, but I'm guessing that......
erm, Oh! IDK!!!

Answer 8

Do you have any ideas?
I mean don't tell me the answer, but its just to confusing....

Answer 9

Please help me!

Answer 10

This might help you. I am not 100% sure but you asked for a idea and here one is. What I think the conflict between these two characters is that the father is in disbelief that the person before him is his son. By the way he fell into his son at the end is a indicator that he is happy or at least relieved that the person before him is his son. The son is trying to convice his father that he is his son with examples of his childhood. Put a few examples in and I would call it a great answer.

Answer 11

what beyond says should work fine i think...Ulysses were missing many many years and Laertes from all the happiness that he sees his son again he falls into him.the conflict (disbelief as was rightly posted) is resolved with the accounting of Ulysses childhood years