Man Who Was Almost Man
Essay by 24 • July 13, 2011 • 776 Words (4 Pages) • 1,133 Views
The Man Who Was Almost A Man
This story is about a little boy Dave that wants a gun. He work all summer so that he could ask his mama can he get a gun and she kept on saying he can’t have no gun cause no one in the house have a gun. One day he was working and his friend came by and they just talking and he told his friend that he want a gun. Then his friend told him that he had a gun for sale and that he wills sale him a gun for two dollars. He went home asking his mama can he have a gun and she kept telling him no that he can’t have no gun in her house.
The next day he came home from work, Dave and his parents was eating dinner. He was scared to ask his mama can have a gun around his daddy. After dinner was over, Dave mama was washing dishes and he started asking his mama over and over again can he have a gun. Finally she said yes he can have the gun, but he have to let her keep the gun. He went and bought the gun from his friend, but after he bought the he suppose to go right back home. Instead he went in woods and tried to shoot the gun. When he shot the gun the gun threw him down and fail out of his hand. That had scared him up, so he went home after everybody was in the bed.
The next morning his mama woke him up asking for the gun and he kept telling her that he left it outside. When he got to work his boss told him to go in the plant the plants in the field, and the fields was about one mile in down the road from where the shop was at. He took the mule with so that he can ply the fields. As soon as he got down the road he started plying the fields like he supposes to be doing. After about the second row he justs stop and though about that he had his gun with him. Then he stops the mule from plying the garden and pulls out his gun and start playing with it. He though about that he had some bullets and he load the gun then he shot the mule, but he didn't mean to. It was the gun it was to powerful him to shoot. He told his boss that he had killed his mule, and the his boss said that’s ok he will just have took keep his checks for the next couple of months.
The reason like this story is because when I was little I had done that same thing but it wasn’t a mule or I did pay for it. When I was little it was this dog that always come up my house and I was scared of it cause it had tried to bite me. I saw the dog in the yard and at time my older cousin was staying with my mama and me and he had a gun. I know that I wasn’t suppose to touch but that day I
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