“You must not cling to your boyhood any longer- it’s time you were a man”
[book I of The Odyssey, lines 341-342]
Telemachus has grown up and is now making his own decisions. In book one of The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles, Telemachus is growing up and starting to standing up for his family, himself and also his belongings. After Athena had convinced Telemachus to go to Sparta to question Menelaos, Telemachus went to the suitors who were living in his house, and ordered them to leave his house. Now that he has grown he is starting to take charge and take care of himself and his belongings:
“But I’ll be lord of my own house and servants all that king Odysseus won for me by force.”
[Book I of The Odyssey, lines 455-456]
In books 1-3 of The Odyssey Telemachus proves to everyone that he is in not just grown up, but he is now in charge. Also he is also no longer a child but an independent young man that can take care of himself. He proves this by first telling the suitors to leave his home, second is by telling his mother that he is now the man of the house and third by going to Sparta to question Menelaus about his father. Now that Telemachus has grown up he is finally making his own decisions and standing up for himself.