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A 6 page analysis of Richard
Wright’s short story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
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man who is not content with his life. All he wants is to be a man, but what he thinks is a man is unclear. He knows he wants out
of his particular world, a world that is not pleasant by any stretch of the imagination, but he is unaware that he does not have the real tools or skills
to become a man perhaps, because of this environment. He thinks somehow, that a gun will make him a man, and with this gun he shoots a mule by accident.
He then runs from his hometown so that he does not have to pay the price, hoping he can be a man somewhere else. As we can see this
particular Wright story, as all Wright stories perhaps, is a tale about discovery, about conflict, and about environmental conditions that hinder and perhaps even destroy young individuals, especially African American
individuals. He is a young man caught in a world he does not understand, a young man without the skills or intelligence to understand, but also a young man with
the desire to escape. The following paper examines this story, analyzing how Wright offers up a young man who is lost in many ways, and a young man who will
likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an angry young man
who likely has no skills to deal with his world. We do not possess much hope for this young man. He is clearly a young man who thinks that a
gun is a ticket to manhood, a very serious error: "Dave struck out across the fields, looking homeward through parting light. Whuts the use talkin wid em niggers in the
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