Journal for Richard Wright

The reading for today is "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright.
In reading this story I notice the lack of usual racist at the beginning of the story as the young protagonist is shown conversing with a white man that he is working for. The latter scenes in the story where white and black men stand together shows a strange lack of racism found in many of the other stories read so far.
I think the main character is a bit of a sinister character in the way that he manages to get into his mother's heart so that he can receive the money to buy the gun from the store. Also, later in the story the manner in which the character finds the gun that he hid just so that he can fire it again and feel more like a man. The main character is a strange one in how he deserves to be a man so much and yet he at times acts like a child to get out of situations.