The afternoon slowly faded into the evening and I had spent the entire day without the figure of my aspiration, my father. I impatiently paced the ground outside the door like a stalking cat waiting to pounce on its prey. The idea of ​​fighting against my father and hearing those words of affirmation: “You got me!” Mercy! I give up! » filled my head. My father was obviously faking it, but there was something about his words that had such power over a young boy's life. Mothers are sources of comfort and security for a young boy but it is the father who defines a young boy's identity, the father gives the boy manhood. “A boy learns who he is and what he gets from a man, or the company of men. He can't learn it anywhere else. He can't learn it from other boys, nor from the world of women. The plan from the beginning of time was that his father would lay the foundation for a young boy's heart..." (Eldredge 62) In the epic tale of the Odyssey, young Telemachus spent nearly 20 years without his father . Odysseus, Telemachus' father, left for the Trojan War when Telemachus was just born. The Trojan War lasted 10 years and on Odysseus' return journey he had to take a 10-year detour. Odysseus, the great king of Ithaca, has been missing for 20 years and rumors of his death had reached the shores of his kingdom. Suitors who do not intend to care for Telemachus and Penelope (Odysseus's wife), but to amass Odysseus' fortune, have begun to fill the halls of Odysseus' house in hopes of becoming the next king of Ithaca. Young Telemachus was powerless to defend the reputation of his mother and father. Helpless because he didn't realize who he really was. His identity had not been revealed to him. If there was ever a time when Telemachus needed his father, it was then. He needed his father to protect his mother, to defend the family name, and, most of all, to reveal Telemachus' identity. After all, who was Telemachus to face the battle-tested suitors? With the help of Athena (goddess of war), Telemachus set off on a journey to find his father, but more than his father, he set out in search of himself..