Ares was the god of war in greek mythology. A helmet and a shield not full armor protected him. The greeks considered he the least of the
twelve olympians because he was carless and bloodthirsty. In many of
Homers stories Ares was defeated or shamed by his half-sister Athena
the warrior-goddess whom protected both home and civilization.

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

In the song mallam sile sings in lines 113 through 130 the knife probably represents