In the story we see an Afro-American "black" teenager called Dave; who was triying to get some respect.He thougt that if he would have a gun, everybody -both blacks and whites- would show respect to him and that gun would make him "a real man".In the story the main idea is the inequilities between the whites and blacks.
Throughout the story, he got some money from his mom and bought a gun.While he was playing with that gun on the open field, Jenny - the mule- was shot and died.The owner of he mule came ,and the others too, and they laughed all togetherly at him because of this funny event.So instead of getting respect, he got teased.
There are lots of ideas of racism, inequility in the text.The writer is also an afro-american, so these racism and inequilities arent distal to him.
Our friends who presantate this text wasnt fully prevail to the story.There are symbols like gun,mule -i think it's important too for having a name like Jenny- and "being a man"; the dialogues were written in afro-american style and they didnt mention these.Although there were some problems, it was nice to hear them !!!
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