the man who was almost a man

something that i was thinking about during the class discussion of this was how everyone was saying that he was clearlynot a man. while i do agree with this the fact that he knew how to operate the gun tells me otherwise. the gun he had, as the book tells us, is a revolver from the year 1818. the way that pistols were set up back then was very different from how they are today. they had to be loaded and packed like a colonial style musket. the fact that he could work his way through the process that took a skilled soldier a minute to perform says that we should give him more credit than we did in class.