 Which statement best describes how Read changes throughout the story?
Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog, January 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. It's not so much the decisions a man does make that mark him as a Man—but the ones he refrains from making. Illustrated by Schoenherr Read locked the door and drew his pistol. If Umluana noticed Read's gun, he didn't show it. "Corporal Read is very young," Rashid said, "but he's a crack shot. Umluana turned back to Rashid a second too soon. Rashid judo chopped him and swung the inert body over his shoulders. Read pulled a flat grenade from his vest pocket. Two men with rifles plunged into the gas; sighing, they fell to the floor in a catatonic trance. Bearing the Scourge of Africa, Rashid struggled toward it. Read walked backward, covering their retreat. As they swerved toward the south, Read saw a dozen armed men run out of the house. A grenade arced from the bushes and the pursuers recoiled from the cloud that rose before them. "Well, Read, it looks like we're in for a fight. In a few minutes Miaka Station will know we're coming. But he had set his life on a well-oiled track and he couldn't get off until they reached Geneva. Two types of recruits are accepted by the UN Inspector Corps: those with a fanatic loyalty to the ideals of peace and world order, and those who are loyal to nothing but themselves. Read was the second type. A tall, lanky Negro he had spent his school days in one of the drab suburbs that ring every prosperous American city. It was the home of factory workers, clerks, semiskilled technicians, all who do the drudge work of civilization and know they will never do more. Those who could have told him neither studied nor taught at his schools. What he saw on the concrete fields between the tall apartment houses marked the limits of life's possibilities. "When Harry Read's out, there's a tiger running loose." No one knew how many times he nearly ran from other clubs, how carefully he picked the safest spot on the battle line. "A man ought to be a man," he once told a girl. Did you ever notice how our fathers look, how they sleep so much? Why, you stay here and go to trade school and in two years you'll be living just like me." "You could join the American Army," his mother said.
 He overcame his cowardly ways to act for the good of his mission.
 He became much less of an individual and more of a pawn for the UN.  He overcame his cowardly ways to act for the good of his mission.  He remains the self-serving person he was when the story started.  He got cocky and made his own decisions without listening to Sergeant Rashid.