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A 5 page paper which examines the stories (the protagonists in particular) in order to gain a greater understanding of each author’s message about reaching manhood in American culture in terms of race and class through plot, characterization, setting, tone (narrative point of view), and imagery. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of passage in their short stories, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" and "A & P." Each tale featured male protagonists - one black, one white - and
a certain defining moment for each that they believed enabled them to leave their boyhood behind and firmly establish their manhood once and for all. Through these characters, the
settings they were in, tone (narrative and point of view), and carefully crafted imagery, the authors were making their own individual statements about the coming of age for young American
men, and how it was invariably influenced by race and class. "The Man Who Was Almost a Man," which was included in Richard Wrights posthumously published 1961 work, Eight Men,
was first written in 1939. The Civil War might have ended more than seventy years previously, but old prejudices die hard in the Deep South. The main character
is Dave Saunders, a seventeen-year-old teenager who works with his parents as a sharecropper on white farmer Jim Hawkins plantation. It becomes readily apparent that Dave "is dissatisfied with
his status in the world" (Felgar 93). After all, hes "seventeen. Almos a man... a man outta have little gun aftah he done worked hard all day" (Wright
860). As the author wastes no time in revealing, Dave "is frustrated by social controls, such as his family, that restrict his freedom" (Felgar 95). Why should he
have to ask if he could buy a gun or even ask for the money to buy one? He is almost a man, which to him means he should
be free to do as he pleases. This is especially true in the African-American culture, where manhood has a great importance because of the way in which "its men
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