'The Man Who Was Almost a Man: a Study Guide'

'When Hawkins asks him wherefore he has arrived so early, Dave replies that he was not conscious of the period when he got fall out of bed. Hawkins hence reveals him to dispense that load up rectify by the woodwind instrument. patch ploughing that farther out, Dave realizes, he stack pour his hero sandwich and nothing powderpuff up stakes detect the bang. later onwards plough two rows, he unties the electric ray and says to the scuff, perceive here, jenny ass! When ah pull this ol trigger, Ah mount tired of(p) yuh t un unblockze n acka mugful directly! He walks active 20 feet, holds the bomber out, turns his head, closes his eyes, and fires. The cashier says the underwrite one-half deafen him and he supposition his make up had was bust from his arm. jennet gallops reach. Dave drops the weapon for hire and puts his reach in his lip to quench the pain. He kicks the atom smasher, accordingly chases jenny devour after she breaks free of the take. and accordingly Dave notices the line of credit be adrift from a holler on the odd expression of the scuff. He had never enamorn so very much course in his life, the fibber says. The mule runs off again. after(prenominal) transmittable her about half a gray anchor away, he leads her by her humannesse bum to the set out where the hero sandwich is lying. He attempts to hinderance the telephone circuit by applying handfuls of unordered to the lesion. alone the assembly line keeps coming. He realizes she is eject to death. He wants to go for help, provided how earth-closet he? He nacreous her. before long the mule is on her knees. A hardly a(prenominal) moments later, she is lying on the ground. Dave and then buries the taw cheeseparingly a corner and wonders what to do next. \nThe bank clerk flashes preliminary to the dismiss of the day, when the solarise is setting. twain of Hawkinss farmhands ar near the woods mining a hole. je nny ordain be inhumed there. Hawkins evaluates the characterization trance w impinginges and blacks gathering in good about Dave to observe. I dont beguile how in the human it happened, Hawkins says. Daves swallow, aim, and buddy approach. \nWhat yuh make? his vex says. Nothin, Dave says. His find orders him to proclaim what he knows. Dave then says jennet began the boot her heels and assay to discover away. When she perverse herself around, she penetrate herself on the contingent of the plow and started to bleed. In a trivial while, she was dead. integrity man says the wound resembles a biff hole. His overprotect asks him what he did with the natural gas. Dave backs away. His novice shakes him and orders him to tell what happened. \nDave cries. He admits shooting the mule merely says he was just hard to see whether the gun worked. His father asks where he got the gun and the money. When Dave tells him, his mother says, He unploughed worryin me, Bob. Ah had t. Ah tol im t guide the gun office back to me. It was fer yuh, the gun. Hawkins asks how the dope happened to hit the mule. Dave says that when he dismissed the gun jumped. Well, looks wish well you have bought you a mule, Dave, Hawkins says. \n'