Answer TWO questions on this story

Answer TWO questions on this story

(you can pick whatever two you want to answer from the list below)

I attached the story

“The Man Who Was Almost a Man” p.16 Questions:

 Can you imagine what might “happen next”? …… invent a scenario.

 How do the different characters view “manhood”? How does Dave blur boundaries between boyhood and manhood? How is the gun symbolic here?

 Explain the title in relation to the story’s ending.

 Analyze Wright’s use of dialect: why does he alternate it with more sophisticated omniscient narration?

 Compare this story to another that deals with transition to adulthood: account for differences in terms of race, class, gender, locale, etc…