Charlie six seven, weighed around two hundred and seventy, grandson of former salves, also had problems that lasted about 45 years. He lived in the south, at a time were society-oppressed blacks by white southerners and blacks were considered to be second-class. Living in this society Charlie was tired

Charlie talks about not doing anything like this before, but it was time to stand up for himself. His elderly friend Mathu had a part in this. Mathu already had an incident with Beau’s dad, Fix. Mathu also stood up for himself when he rejected Fix command to take Fix’s empty coke bottle to the store. The rejection lead to a fistfight, but that was one of many fistfights Mahtu has been in with the whites. “Mathu was the only one known that ever stood up.” Chimley said (Gathering of Old Men 31). It was certain that Mathu was giving advice to Charlie, when he ran into his house. Advice on how to be a man and men don’t run. Mathu was some what instigating Charlie to shoot Beau by saying that he had a gun and would rather see him dead than run from another man when he was fifty years old. Also the eighty two year old man said he was going to beat Charlie if he ran. Mathu, through experience, seems to know the importance to stand up at the appropriate time. Charlie by being somewhat coached by Mathu, he too found out of some importance of standing up taking action and feeling some self value from it.

of what he called “running.” Charlie ended up shooting his supervisor at work. While he was being question by the sheriff (Mapes), why he shot a Cajun named Beau. Charlie replied “That’s all I ever done with my life, was run from people. From black, from white: from nigger, from Cajun, both. All my life. Made me do what they wanted me to do, and bused me if I did it right,

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