Odysseus sets off on his journey away from Ithaca around the time that his son, Telemachus, is presumably at the crucial and influential time period in his life where he is still a child but fantasizes about being an adult. In the Odyssey I was never quite able to depict how Telemachus felt about being somewhat abandoned by his father. It appears that regardless of his slight abandonment he came together with his father in the end to join an epic battle to rid the house of suitors. Presuming that Telemachus is between the ages of five to eight and his father is gone for around two decade he didn’t have a father figure to raise him during those important ages. Imagine all of the important milestones that occurred from elementary school till
