When the assembly meets the next day Aegyptius a wise Ithacan elder speaks first. He praises Telemachus for stepping into his father’s shoes mentioning that this occasion marks the first time that the assembly has been called since Odysseus left. Telemachus gives a speech in which he states the loss of both his father and his father’s home his mother’s suitors, the sons of Ithaca’s elders have taken it over. He insults them for consuming his father’s oxen and sheep as they pursue their courtship day in and day out when any decent man would simply go to Penelope’s father and ask him for her hand in marriage.
More and more that I am reading Telemachus is encountering some hardships in order to make things go as planned. People are starting to see the role Telemachus has taken to become the " man of the house." People are seeing him as growing up and taking responsibility. He is growing as a person with this deed. He has some encounters with the suitors and has a few scuffles but all is going well. He is trying to get the suitors to quit using up of all of their wealth and prosperities and leave but the suitors do not wish to leave. I can imagine how he is feeling. Things arent going as fast and how he wants them to. Somtimes I want things to hurry up and just happen but patience is key and is a virtue.
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