The Odyssey, by Homer, is about a Trojan War hero, Odysseus, struggling to return home to his wife and son. While Odysseus is experiencing many hardships, which are preventing him from returning home, his wife is being besieged by suitors, and his son, Telemachus is growing up in chaos, without any support of an adult role model. Every child needs at least one role model of their gender, however, the only male role models Telemachus …
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…excited and overlooked when the hero of the war returned, this was because one his father returned and he never got to actually be with his father for longer then a couple minutes. But also he was the man of the house, his father left his family to go fight a war but then never returned. Telemachus was forced to take on the responsibility of the father but was never ready to do accept it.