This story commemorates a change in the South for black communities where a field hand’s son does not have to become a field hand himself. Additionally, Dave Saunders is the epitome of a deprived black boy growing up in the South. He fantasizes that a gun will bring him the admiration that he craves, and the capability to control. Moreover, there are no prospects for him, because the old South prevents it. Similarly, he is destitute and without opportunities shackled, and immobilized to a life of poverty, barely making ends
