In book 21 of the Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus decides he is going to kill the suitors. Odysseus has been away fighting in the Trojan War and struggling to get home in a twenty year time span. When Odysseus finally arrives at home and hears about the suitors, him and Telemachus come up with a plan to kill these suitors. He is disguised as an old beggar who lives in Ithaca. Odysseus’s decision was to get Telemachus and two other men are sent to hide all of the weapons in the halls and close all of the doors. Because of this plan, Odysseus reveals himself by shooting the arrow through the hoops, which is a task that only Odysseus himself can accomplish and all of the suitors are in shock. Odysseus’s first shot was to Antinous’ throat because he
