http://www.santharia.com/weapons/bow.htm ; here is a link that describes a bit of what the bow is like and how it is used with terms and things. I think its interesting how complex in the making it was for something of that time period.
(In this particular picture, you can see Odysseus really stepping up to the plate and protecting his family. You can see Telemachus really hiding in the other room, while his father fights the suitors. )
During this particular section of the novel, Telemachus and Odysseus's relationship really starts to progress and work together. Interestingly enough, they do not do more than work together with their arms, but you can definitely see the bonding throughout this section. The symbol of hiding is shown again in this section, because Odysseus's doesn't want his being home to get back to Penelope. The whole time they are back together at home, they are trying o figure out how to kill the suitors. Ironically throughout this, the suitors are trying to figure out how to kill Telemachus. Penelope does have a breakdown where she is so distraught of her husband not being home, that Zeus needs to get involved. He sends down a huge clap of thunder to try and restore any peace that can be made back to them.
After Odysseus and Telemachus talk for awhile about the "suitors" and how they plan to kill them, Telemachus decides to head home to Penelope. Upon returning home, she is so thrilled that he comes home, that she starts to cry. As they are feasting together (Something that they love to do in this story, symbolic of strong family ties), Telemachus tells his mother a small portion of him hearing about Odysseus. While he is talking, he does not mention the fact that he has seen him in the hut at Eumaeus's. While this is going on, Eumaeus and Odysseus head to the palace. When they arrive back home, Odysseus is incognito as a begger and tries to sneak to Penelope's room so that the Suitors do not see him. All the while, fighting breaks out among Odysseus and some other begger, but Athena gives him more strength so that he is able to fight back. Then Penelope comes out and claims that she was told that she could have another husband if Odysseus had not returned before Telemachus became more of a man and matured physically. The suitors try to win over Penelope by giving her presents.
"...they brought a long embroidered robe of the most beautiful material on which were fixed a dozen golden brooches, each fitted with a curved sheath for the pin.." (Page 283)
It was interesting how detailed Homer went into the items that they brought. I think it shows the wealthiness of Penelope and how Odysseus and her, really should have been equated with royalty.
http://www.search.com/reference/Telemachus ; here is a link to a reference site that talks a little bit about Telemachus and what his name means. I think it is interesting that in Greek his name means "far away fighter", yet he is always the peacemaker in the story and does not really fight a lot.
Along his travels, he meets up with Eumaeus, whom gives him some pork and other foods. Homer goes into great detail describing the place that he meets with Eumaeus. I believe that the hut that he describes symbolizes a sort of hope for Odysseus that he will return home to his family eventually. Hope was something that Odysseus carried with him throughout the whole novel, and it really showed through here at the hut. Without the hope of being able to eventually make it through, he would never have been able to survive such trivial and vigorous activities. I think this really connects to The Motorcycle Diaries, because Ernesto really had a sense of needing other people to survive, where as Odysseus did not need someone to survive but it was nice having that short comfort. Telemachus was eventually brought back up and Athena convinced him to return home from the area before a man took his mother’s hand in marriage. Telemachus then gets news that his father is in Eumaeus’s hut. When he arrives there, he realizes that he is not because Athena changes Odysseus to someone else. After Eumaeus goes to Penelope to tell her that her son is home, Odysseus turns back into himself and they embrace each other
After fleeing the scene, Odysseus sails away on his ship and returns back to Circe, the witch. He asks her many questions and she insists that she knows what is going to happen to him. She knows all of the obstacles that he is going to face along his journey.
“When your crew have carried you past this danger, you will have reached a point beyond which I cannot fully guide you. Two ways will lie before you, and you must choose between them as you see fit, though I will tell you both. “(Page, 190)
This particular passage demonstrates her knowledge about the journey that he faces in the future. After Odysseus leaves Circe, he meets Scylla, the horrible sea monster.
“She has twelve feet, all dangling in the air, and six long necks, each ending in a grisly head with triple row of teeth” (Page 191).
As he describes her, he claims that no one can really get by her on the ship. After she only eats a few of the men, he gets away, but barely. Then he heads to the island of the sun, where he tries to avoid it as much as he can. After he ends his story, he looks forward to leaving Scheria and heading home. After the land changing a lot, he doesn’t know right from wrong, so he goes out and asks a shepherd, (Athena) where he is. She tells him that he is in Ithaca.