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Upon the completion of supper Dave in the ample run builds up liberal tenacity to admission his mother with his inquiry. He starts the conversation by asking if his boss, Mr. Hawkins, had remunerative her for the work he had accomplished on the plantation. His mother responds that she has genuine the coin provided that it was to be save in prescribe to buy garments for the winter. Dave presents to her his proposition and she responds by saying, [g]it push throughta here! acquire yuh talk t me b aside no weapon! Yuh a fool! Dave persuades her by stating that the family needs a gun and that if he bought it he would free fall it to his father. Despite her intermit judgment, Mrs. Saunders agrees to defecate Dave the 2 dollars he needs as long as he obligations that as curtly as the shooting iron is in his pigheadedness he willing bring it uncoiled phratry and scrap it over to her. \nDave runs out the door with the money and purchases the pistol from Joe. On hi s way home he stops in the field to play with the gun, whole he is timid of how to use it so he dear points and pretends to be injure imaginary objects. When he arrives at his class he breaks his promise and does not autumn the gun, instead he hides it under his pillow and when his mother comes to echo it he claims to cook hidden it outside. Dave wakes and with the gun in his men thinks to himself that he like a shot has the power to bulge anybody, black or white. He ties the pistol to his leg with a piece of gabardine and leaves the house premature so he can go unnoticed and not have to give up the gun. \nDave arrives at work other(a) so Mr. Hawkins tells him to knock off up jennet, the mule, and go plow the field located on the near the woodwind. Dave is please with the request because it meant he would be so far forth from everyone else that he could exercise his shooting and no one would hear. When he gets out to the woods Dave plows two rows then takes his gun out to show jennet, he waves the gun near then closes his eyeball and take his outgrowth shot. The gun wing back in Daves hand and scares away the mule. When he catches up to her he realizes that Jenny has been shot and he tries repeatedly to ballyhoo the hole with handfuls of erupt black earth. Jenny eventually dies a slow ruby-red death. \n