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... handle his own money. Which makes him still a child who doesn’t need to possess a gun. 2. After begging and pleading, like a little baby, his mother finally gives in to the idea under the conditions that Dave brings the gun home immediately. The gun was supposed to be purchased for his father. Now Dave’s lack of responsibility begins to kick in. That night he slept with the gun under his pillow. The gun gave him a sense of power. “ Could kill a man with a gun like this. Kill anybody, black or white. And if he were holding his gun in his hand, nobody could run over him; they would have to respect him.”(1630) Dave felt that now he would obtain the respect from those who were older than him. Dave did everything in his power to keep the gun, knowing that it was for his father. 3. In her discussion of Almost A Man, Patience Carter, a school teacher, a writer, a critic and a permanent fixture at Morrill Books said “Dave had to kill a mule s...