The Man Who Was Almost a Man Characters

Dave is a Black seventeen-year-old living with his family in the American South around the 1930s. He works plowing fields on a plantation owned by a white man, Jim Hawkins, where members of his… read analysis of Dave Saunders

Bob Saunders is a Black man living in the South around the 1930s. He is the father of Dave Saunders and Dave’s younger brother as well as the husband of Mrs. Saunders. The whole… read analysis of Bob Saunders (Pa)

As the white owner of a Southern plantation around the 1930s, Mr. Hawkins is the employer of many Black field workers, including the Saunders family (Dave, Bob, Mrs. Saunders, and Dave’s… read analysis of Jim Hawkins

Mrs. Saunders is the mother of Dave and his little brother, as well as the wife of Bob Saunders, living with all of them on the plantation of the white Southern landowner Mr.… read analysis of Mrs. Saunders (Ma)