I wish at least I had some happy man's father, going old in his house-but unknown death and silence are the fate of him that, since you ask, they call my father."(Homer, The Odyssey). Telemachos wanted to find his father, in which he had not seen in over twenty years, so he could hid his mother's house of the many suitors and to save his family. However, Odysseus is on his own journey, he is trying to get home after fighting in the Trojan War.

First, Homer shows Telemachos' maturation in books one through four by his development of essential...