The man who was almost a man

Wright's way of writting was particularly hard to follow at times. He wrote in a very southern type of speech. The story starts off with Dave who is a little black boy. Dave just wants to go down by the woods so no one can hear him shoot off his gun. Dave takes Jenny, who is a mule down there so he can shoot the gun (and not shoot the mule.) While he is so nervously aiming and fires, Wright explains the pain that Dave goes through, feeling as if his entire arm fell off from shooting the gun. He shortly finds out that he shot Jenny. We talked about in class that this could be a sign that he was killing himself, since he probably felt like a mule at times. He has to eventually pay for Jenny. The story ends with Dave on a train leaving.