Book 15 captian's blog

Part 1
Athena travels to Sparta where she appears to Telemachus in his dream to go back to Ithaca to destroy the suitors.Telemachus follows her advice goes back Odysseus wishes to stay in Eumaeus hut for awhile longer, bringing up the question of just how many and would you let a stranger into your house.Odysseus tries to make him work for the suitor but he shoots it down. Odysseus and Telemachus' confrontation foreshadow an imminent confrontation and climax. 
TELEMACHUS’ COMING OF AGE: What are the signs that Telemachus has matured since the last time we encountered him (in Books 1-4)? Consider his behavior toward Menelaus, Pisistratus, Theoclymenus, and his crew     Telemachus was fearful of the devious suitors now, years later he has matured, faced some of his own demons and follows Athena's plea to head back to Ithaca to protect his mother.
Guiding Question: 
In what ways do Odysseus and Telemachus develop during the course of the book? Do they develop at all?
Odysseus has stayed mostly static, expecting that his crew follow, when they fail he takes part of the blame upon himself, celebrates victories etc. Telemachus is dynamic, has a coming of age, grows up in the pages, becomes confident in himself.
Guiding Question 2:
Why does Homer keep bringing up hospitality?
To show how the character's respond when greeted with denial/acceptance.
Part 2
One Literary device would be the foreshadowing of the confrontation of Telemachus and Odysseus, it appears father will meet his son for the first time and something huge will happen. Another Illumination is the epic machinery in the form of Homer's time line. The line often keeps jumping around from book to book keeping the reader on his toes. Lastly Homer's description of the gods from the introduction helps to fill our minds with our own ideas of how to view these many and powerful gods, negative or positive.
Guiding Question 3:
Why does Homer choose to imclude so many gods or characters,
Homer chooses to do this to make it seem epic, the definition of Odyssey, having so many gods curious about his future creates a sense of awe in the reader.
Part 3
Does muscle beat brawn? Odysseus defeats the mighty cyclops with his outstanding cunning, but also hast to use many men, in doing so indeed uses brawn; however the majority is cunning. The quest for glory is also a recurring theme. Odysseus makes his name known throughout the lands, he halfway taunts the cyclops telling him that was himself that defeated the powerful cyclops. When Odysseus is visiting a distant land they wish that he to would partake in the Olympic games, he declines, after all that he has gone through no desire to gain any more, if you consider fighting and slaughtering your enemies honor but that is another entirely different question. In the 1986 movie, Platoon, Charlie Sheen plays a young college kid who drops out in order that he fight in Vietnam. Upon arrival he sees that the glory that he imagined is not so clear cut, fighting a pathetic opponent, showing brutal tactics in one scene with the villagers, not quite the glory that he was imagining. Last year in the college basketball end of the year tournament Butler, a mostly unheraled team made it into the final vs powerhouse Duke. Duke ended up winning but Butler had two opportunity at taking a shot to win the game, the last heave, a mid court shot, just barely missed.
Guiding question 4
Is Telemachus that David, if so are the suitors the Goliath? if not, how is?
Telemachus is definitely David, the underdog, his coming of age shows him becoming stronger, the suitors however are not a worthy opponent.