... be when everything is unraveled and revealed at the end of the epic. When Penelope learns that the beggar is Odysseus, she just sits there with no response. Telemakhos takes note of this and observes, "Mother cruel mother do you feel nothing drawing yourself apart this way from father? Will you not sit with him and talk and question him?" (Bk ... have the audacity to question the actions or response of their parent. Telemakhos goes from "a boy, daydreaming" at the beginning to the man that he should be in the end. A classic story of youth to adulthood, where the father represents the ma...

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