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The intimate memory object that proves Odysseus' identity and symbolizes his promise and lasting love for Penelope.
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brooch
The intimate memory object that proves Odysseus' identity and symbolizes his promise and lasting love for Penelope.
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The brooch is Jiang's hidden sign in the passage: to outsiders it is descriptive ornament, but to Penelope it recalls the departure promise and proves the stranger is Odysseus.
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The brooch lets Penelope recognize Odysseus because it is an intimate object only he would remember in detail.
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The brooch symbolizes Odysseus' everlasting love for Penelope and his promise to return, even after the object itself has been lost.
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"...stop okay um thank you in double fold with a gold brooch to collapse it twin sheaves for the pins on the face a..."
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"sun itself you woman galore would gaze on it with relish and this too bear it in mind won't you i have no idea..."
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"her words renewed her deep desire to weep okay meaning that her his words moved her spirit moved her heart okay now you read..."
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"at the detail on the face of the work of art how things planting a double film it goes on and on and on..."
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"...I will describe something intimate about him. Okay? He has a brooch that he carries on his cloak. And this brooch is beautiful. And..."
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"...know? Because only Odysseus will know all the details of the brooch. What is the brooch? The brooch is what Penelope gave Odysseus as..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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