Find two passages in The Odyssey that are examples of xenia. Compare these two passages.

Two examples of xenia in The Odyssey are Telemachus' welcomes to Pylos, Nestor's home (pp. 29-43) and Lacedaemon, Menelaus' city (pp. 44-53).  When Telemachus arrives in Pylos, there is a large-scale sacrifice to Poseidon happening. "The ship came to Pylos, Nestor's great city. Onshore, black bulls were being sacrificed to the blue-maned Lord of the Sea. Nine companies of five hundred men were each assigned nine bulls for sacrifice." (p. 28). In contrast, upon arrival in Lacedaemon, Telemachus finds that Menelaus is holding a double wedding feast. "...which they found was filled with guests. Menelaus was hosting a double wedding party for his son and his daughter." (p. 44). These two passages show that even with whatever is happening at the moment the host must show xenia or risk losing face.

The Conflict Perspective on Maus

There are quite a few perspectives that socialists use as interpretive guides, but among all of them the conflict theory is the best to interpret Maus. A bunch of conflicting events conspiring together to create one big event: the Holocaust. Hateful Nazis, selfish Poles, vulnerable Jews. It's all a sea of negative emotions and fighting according to the conflict perspective. Everything that happened in the Holocaust was a tragedy, and those all suit the conflict perspective perfectly. Fights practically caused the Holocaust, along with the hatred and negativity that caused Hitler to want to kill off the Jews. All of the conflicts pulled together perfectly illustrate the conflict perspective's view of the Holocaust.