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After Odysseus and his men escape from the cave of Cyclops, they went back to their boat. They freak out, because some of their companions are packing up and getting ready to leave. Some of the men we’re shocked when they saw Odysseus and his men back, safe and alive. They were curious about what happen to them inside the cave. Use the past tense in this paragraph.
“Oh Odysseus and the others are back! They did not died!” one of the men shouted when he saw them walking from far away.
“Odysseus welcome back! How did you escape?” Manuelo asked when
Odysseus already inside the big boat.

“Yeah Odysseus tell us!” they said in chorus.

“Well when we were inside the cave, the cave was so dark and disgusting, the smell inside was so nasty. Bones of human are scattered on the ground, the walls have blood stains on it. If you guys are there it
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that is so disgusting!” the other men said.

“The Cyclops an ugly monster, the way he eats his food and drinks the wine that we gave him, he doesn’t have any manners,” Odysseus continued.

“How did you guys escape?” the janitor asked.

“Well we gave him a wine but the bad thing that happened is he vomited all the human flesh that he ate, and all the blood came out of his mouth. Then he felt dizzy. He was planning to eat the rest of us but he didn’t succeed. After he got drunk, we blinded him using a burning stake. That made him groan into tears,” Odysseus said.

“Whoahh! a good plan!” the men said in chorus.

“It was easy to tricked him but difficult to escaped the cave because there’s a large rock that is stucked on the main exit. The only one who could carry the rock and took it out was Cyclops. Good thing I know that Cyclops always brought his flocks out every sunset. Then we hang to those sheep that he’s going to brought outside the cave. When he took them out, that’s when we run and escape from him, but bad for him he’s blind now” Odysseus said proudly. Tenses “That is so amazing!” the crew man

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