confirms what he has believed: that his father Odysseus is still alive. "But now the the storm-winds have spirited him away we know not whither" (Homer 5).Not far off in the past, we have our friend Abraham who has just received a message from God telling him to leave his native land for the land of Canaan. The land of Canaan is the land that God promised to Abraham and where he would have his great nation of descendants born. Abraham leaves with his wife Sarah and on the way to the land God promised them they travel through the great land of Egypt. Abraham knowing that his wife is quite lovely asks her to pose as his sister. Abraham believing that they would kill him in order to have his wife. The Pharaoh of Egypt seeing that she is fair and thinking that she is Abraham's sister begets her as his wife. After many plagues upon his household and finding out who she really is, the angry Pharaoh sends them on their way out of Egypt. This is similar to how Minerva appeared to Telemachus and set him on his own journey.At first Telemachus doubts what this stranger has to say, but after she is finished he is now more than ever convinced that his father is still alive. Abraham also at first doubts what God has to say, but in the end he believes him and rejoices. After the stranger leaves Telemachus warns the suitors that his father, the great warrior Odysseus, is coming and will punish them for their evil deeds (Homer 8). He warns them, yet none pay this man-child's words any heed. Although Telemachus tried himself to throw the evil suitors out he failed every time.The question that arises from these incidents is whether Telemachus is a man or a coward. Telemachus, having grown up without a father to guide him through his years of boyhood, was never really given the chance to grow up to be a man. None the less, he tries to throw out the suitors and set himself on the right path (Homer 11). Abraham as well is having troubles of h...
