"You were no idiot before, Eteoneus but here you are talking like a child of ten. Could we have made it home again-and Zeus give us no more hard roving!- if other men had never fed us, given us lodging? Bring these men to be our guests!"

"Not the least shyness, now, Telemakhos. You came across the open sea for this- to find out where the great earth finds your father and what the doom was that he came upon."

"Well I must say I marvel at the sight of you: your manner of speech couldnπt be more like his; one would say No; no boy could speak so well."

≥And in hot anger now he threw the staff to the ground, his eyes bright with tears.≤

"She held fine clothes and a cloak to put around him when he came godlike from the bathing place; then out he went to take his place with Nestor."

I really am starting to get confused over all of the

names that are showing up in book three. The Question

that I would have to ask would be..."Why does is seem

like everyone always trusts everyone. In the beginning

of book one, Telemachus invites the mentor inside wven

though he didn't know him. He trusted him to tell the

truth on who he was and why he was there. Either

Telemachus is naive or Most people were trustworthy

when they stories were being told back in the day. In

the third book, He is going on a journey to talk to

someone to see if they know any information about his

father. First of all how does he know that the king

won't lie to him? He takes his word right away. He

trust the mentor when the mentor tells him to get up

there and tell the people why you came here and not to

be afraid. Another reason why I think it might not

just be Telemachus is because the king also invited

them into their home and trusted that telemachus would

tell the truth about his journey and why he was there.

This story is following the hero path that was learned

in class! I love how the mentor is continually behind

telemachus with everything and gives him advice that

Telemachus immediatly takes. This story sort of

reminds me of a greek tragedy that I read in theatre

class. Except oedipus wasn't searching for his father,

he was soon to find out who his real parents were. Its

interesting to see how telemachus's behavior and

confidence is building up throughout the beginning. I

cant wait to see how much he changes for when he

returns back to the real world. Yet I am very worried

about the whole situation of him trusting peoples word

too easily. I think that might be one of his downfalls