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The Odyssey - Online Term Paper

The Odyssey

, written by Homer, is a story about a man (Odysseus) and his twenty-year journey home from the wars of Troy. This book also contains another journey traveled by Odysseus’s son Telemachus. His journey is not about travel, but becoming a man. Throughout Telemachus reaches manhood, but never the level of greatness like his farther.
Telemachus enters the story as a grown man in size, but acts immature. He is thought of as a nuisance by the suitors, who are destroying his home. He also does not possess the skills to drive them away. Homer states, “- if only he might drop from the clouds and drive these suitors all a rout throughout the halls and regain his pride of place and rule his ...

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to who his father really is. “My mother always told me I’m his son, it’s true, but I am not so certain.” (I, 249). This is mentioned because Telemachus, and the suitors, feel that if he were really the son of Odysseus then he would have the strength to stop the destruction of his house.
Before Telemachus enters manhood he needs people to help guide him. First it takes the disguised goddess Athena to start him down the path. Athena starts by telling Telemachus to call the lords to full assembly and give the order for each of the suitors to scatter to his own place. She also instructs him to grow up and stop wining. “You must not cling to your boyhood any longer- it’s time you were a man.” (I, 340). Athena instructs Telemachus to, travel to Pylos and Sparta, talk to their kings, and search for rumors of his father’s return home. Finally her last words of advice, before they set sail, are “how tall and handsome I see you now-be brave, you too, so men to come will sing your ...

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Added: 3/14/2007 04:40:00 AM
Category: English
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