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The Man Who Was Almost a Man Summary & Study Guide Description
The Man Who Was Almost a Man Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man Plot Summary
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The story opens as Dave, the seventeen-year-old protagonist, heads home from a day working in the fields. He fantasizes about buying a gun and knows that if he had a gun his fellow workers would no longer treat him like a boy.
He goes into the local store and asks to look at catalogues. The proprietor, Joe, questions him about what he wants to buy and shows him an old pistol he wants to sell. Dave is excited that Joe is only asking two dollars for the gun and resolves to convince his mother to let him buy it.
He brings home the catalogue and looks at it during dinner. His parents question him about it but he waits until after dinner. When his father has left the room, he asks his mother for the money he has been saving.
Dave's mother first dismisses Dave's request, calling...
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