What thesis does Wiesel develop with used in this passage?
A. That people have been indifferent to human suffering
B. That the world is an interesting place
C. That his experience as a child could never happen again
D. That his opponent is evil

B) Battered but unruffled.

Explanation: In the given passage from "The Odyssey" we can see the description of Odysseus when he dress himself as a beggar to be able to investigate how things have changed in his life, since he left it, years before. The two similes present in the passage are: "In rags like a foul beggar" and "Patient as a stone", the first one present the image of Odysseus being battered and the second one demonstrates that he is also unruffled.