Throughout the story, The Man Who Was Almost a Man there were three core setting of this story which include but are not limited to the store, Dave's house, the store, and the field. From Dave's point of view, which the story is told, the moods around these setting alter greatly. In Joe's store his qualities goes from normal to happy. In his house his mood changes very frequently. His mood also changes repeatedly in …
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…pay for the dead mule that he killed and they wanted him to return his gun. As he was about to return the gun, he saw a train and he wanted to be a man, Dave felt he didn't have the respect where lived to be treated like one, so he jump on the train, hopefully his destination would lead him somewhere, where he could be treated and respected as an adult without a gun.