Background

Most of the books you are reading take place in Odysseus' palace on Ithaka. He removes his disguise in Book XV to reveal his true identity to Telemachos, but no one else knows who he is. Again, birds, thunder and lightening tend to be symbolic. Look for Antinoos, Eurymakhos, Eumaeus, Melantho, Mealnthios, Eurykleia, and Philotios and how they act towards Odysseus.