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Maria3737
Maria3737
27.06.2019 • 
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Then i sent out two picked men and a runnerto learn what race of men that land sustained.  they fell in, soon enough, with lotus-eaters,who showed no will to do us harm, onlyoffering the sweet lotus to our friends—but those who ate this honeyed plant, the lotus,never cared to report, nor to return: they longed to stay forever, browsing on  that native bloom, forgetful of their homeland.which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? the men sent by odysseus to investigate the land they had landed upon became forgetful after eating lotus plants.the lotus-eaters meant no harm and simply offered the lotus plant to odysseus’s men as a gesture of kindness.the lotus was a sweet plant that made men forget everything except the idea of obtaining and eating more lotus plants.the men sent ashore by odysseus were swayed by the hospitality of the lotus-eaters and abandoned the idea of returning home

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