Why did Telemachus leave his mother Penelope to cope with the difficulties of their home and guests and sail off into the nearly unknown?
Minerva convinced him that unless he searched for his father, Ulysses would never be able to come back to Ithaca.
Telemachus was greatly discouraged by the insults of the suitors and longed to show he had developed into a mature man
He hoped that this journey would lead him to his long-lost father and help him claim in his own name to be a hero.
He felt the tedium of staying by his mother at home, even though he knew she needed him,

When the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence the verb in the sentence is in the what ?

Focus question: miss maudie says, “atticus finch is the same in his house as he is in public” (61). what evidence so far proves this true?

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.