Chapter 2 bows and arrows
Outside when the sun had barely arisen and Ithaca was so quiet you could here a pin drop,rocks were piers in the sky; the coast was so pitting on to the sand and pebbles.However calm and Fermin was the last way to describe the feasting hall, as Odysseus was about to find out.As he enter Odysseus gazed around what was his but what he still felt a quest in, slowly taking every thing in bit by bit.He saw: suitors drinking wine and eating meat, his weapons hanging of the wall untouched for nineteen years and Penelope head in her hands sobbing with grief for her long lost husband.This triggered an uncontrollable surge of anger.
Suddenly, he was over powered by the sent of the feast tacking place in front of him-wine dripping from the walls, tables and chairs like blood after a battle were many lives were lost. Then something smashed and the whole hall fell silent, no more drunken sleepy laughter but all he could hear were the weeps and sobs of his pitiful wife, Penelope.But why was she crying when her husband was home and alive, did she not know? When she saw Odysseus she was becoming him to come over to his bedchamber. As soon as he arrived she said”You are an old man you must tell me what my dream means”, soon I will have to marry one of the suitors but I don’t know who. “It will come to you” the old man said and then left. Penelope decided that who ever could shoot an arrow through the twelve ceremonial axes handles like Odysseus used to would be the one she would marry. When the day came for the test all of the suitors tried and failed. But when the old man tried he shot the arrow through all twelve axes. Suddenly he worried that the suitors would find out he was really Odysseus in descize. As soon as the suitors started firing fury at the old man then Odysseus had no choice but to shoot the strongest suitor. When the battle was done he told his son (Telemachus) his mysterious plan. But want was this plan?
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