Amazing man

                                       Amazing man

The story begins with the protagonist Dave Sanders walking home from work, irritated with the way he has been treated. Dave works for a farmer on a plantation and as he walks across the fields he begins thinking of ways that will prove to the other workers that he is a grown up. He decides that the perfect way to prove that he is a grown up is to purchase a gun so instead of going home he goes over to a local store to have a look at the guns in a Sears Roebuck catalog.

When he enters into the store Dave encounters the owner fat Joe. Dave requests the catalog leading Joe to ask him if he is planning on buying something. Dave responds with a so Joe then inquires whether or not Dave’s ma is letting him have his own money now to which Dave responds with a hucks. Mistah Joe, Ahm gittin t be a man like anybody else,Joe asks what exactly it is Dave is planning on buying; a question Dave is reluctant to answer unless Joe promises not to say anything. Joe promises and Dave tells him he’s looking to purchase a gun, Joe states that Dave “ain’t nothing but a boy and that he does not need a gun, but if he’s going to buy one he might as well buy it from him and not from some catalog. Joe offers to sell Dave a left-hand Wheeler, fully loaded and in working order for only two dollars if he can get the money from his ma. With his excitement and interest aroused, Dave leaves the store vowing to come back for the gun later.When he gets home his mother awaits him, irritated because he has kept supper waiting. Dave sits down at the table with the borrowed catalog until his mother takes it from him, threatening to make it outhouse material if he does not get up and wash. After explaining that it was not his she gives it back to him only to have him fumble through it all throughout dinner. Dave was so infatuated with the catalog that he did not even notice his food was in front of him, or that his father had spoken to him. He determines that if he was going to get the pistol that he had better ask his mother for the money and not his father because his father would instantaneously say no, whereas his mother might be a little easier to persuade.