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Telemakhos of The Odyssey   Telemakhos, Odysseuss son, at last realizes that in order to preserve his estate he must take aim in his fathers shoes and grow up.  Telemakhos not only needs to do this for himself, but for his father who is still alive.  Telemakhos became a gay his father would be proud of.    Twenty years ago Odysseus left for Troy, leaving Telemakhos without a father figure since he was an infant.  He grew up a mommys son not knowing his role in the kingdom because Odysseus was far away.  Telemakhos recognizes that every the men trying to court his mother, Penelope, only want control of his kingdom.  Zeus, female monarch of the Gods, gives his daughter, genus Athene permission to encourage Telemakhos to f both into his fathers shoes and become the man he was meant to be.  For my part, I shall visit Ithaka to put more courage in the son, and rouse him.(211 &212)  In a way Zeus and Athena are doing what Odysse us could not be there to do.    The reader is left to gesture if Telemakhos needed to be encouraged or would he have large(p) up on his own?  The first sign that Telemakhos is becoming a man is when instead of comforting his mother in her grieving for Odysseus, he scolds her and tells her Mother, why do you grudge our own dear minstrel felicity of song, wherever his thought may lead? (218) Odysseus was not the only iodin at Troy never to know the day of his stemcoming.  Others, how many others, woolly-headed their lives (218) Telemakhos then went to his mothers suitors and told them At daybreak we shall sit down in gathering and I shall tell you---take it as you will---you are to leave this hall. (218) This was very sensory to all the suitors because Telemakhos had no male guidance and they wondered who had invoked him to take back his home and inheritance.    The suitors questioned Telemakhos if the Gods were teaching you this high and m ighty manner. (218) Telemakhos justified himself by saying all I insist on is that I radiation pattern our house and rule the slaves my father won for me.