6. The Man Who Was Almost A Man

Setting of this story is an american town in 50's. There was a class difference between black and white people. African american people were poor and illiterate. White people were exploiting their power on fields. Main character in the story is an 17 years old black guy. People do not respect him and he decides to buy a gun for himself. After all that story starts. He tries to shoot a mule, but actually he couldn't accomplished it succefully. We see that he is not a complete man. Here man symbolized as honost, powerful and skillful. Writer wants to tell us he wasn't a man with some examples like, he couldn't kill a mule actually he is not skillful and powerful to point a gun to a target. Than he lies. He is not a honost person. He is a young boy. Children are not able to do things like that. At the end of the story he swears to white man and he jumps to the train and goes to far away with a purpose. His purpose is be a man. Maybe he can be a man when he lives alone. If you are living with your family, your parents take some responsibilities instead of you, but when a person lives alone he or she must take own responsibilities. Maybe in this way he can be a man.