Shane (Shane)

Shane is the titular protagonist of the 1949 novel of the same name, and its 1953 film adaptation. He's a retired gunslinger with a vague past, who stays in the valley to live off of domesticity the Starlett family.
In the 1953 adaptation, he was portrayed by Alan Ladd.
==Biography==
Not much is known about Shane's early life or past in general, although what's known is that he had previously served as a gunslinger before he decided to retire from the job for an unknown reason. Although, it's possible he had murdered a fair share of innocent people as a gunslinger, and he's trying to amend his sins by quitting the job and going to a simpler life.
One day, Shane arrived at a fledgling frontier farm in Wyoming where he met the Starlett family and their son. He modestly asks for permission to cut through their property and complimented the Starletts' son Joey for his attentiveness, leading to Joey to start to admire him. Shane's offered water to drink from a water dipper.
The father, Joe Starlett didn't trust Shane as he thought he was working for the cowhands trying to destroy the farms' fences and let the cattle out, with his suspicions growing stronger when Rufus Ryker's men turn up. Joe aims a gun at Shane getting him to leave. Ryker's men trample over Joe's garden, laugh at him and threaten the homesteader. Ryker informs Joe that he signed a new government beef contract and needs all the range land so that his cattle can run freely, leading Joe to get into a verbal fight with Ryker which Marion settles down. When Shane comes to the family's aid and defend them from Ryker and his man as they leave, this act finally convinces Joe that Shane was on their side and he lets him in and apologies for misjudging him.
Shane's invited to stay and he officially introduces himself to the family, but refuses to talk much about his past. When Joe complains about having too much work to do alone, Shane helps him out by choping and pulling up the large tree stump. Shane is asked to stay for the night - but would likely stay on longer and become a hired hand, giving up his previous life as a gunfighter and joining the community of homesteaders.
The next morning, Joey found Shane and asked about Shane's future plans, wanting to learn how to shoot with real bullets. Shane goes to town to buy "soda pop" for Joey, and to purchase working farm clothes at the store for himself, to which Joey tries to run after him only for his mother to call him back. In the mercantile, Shane encounters Calloway again who mocks him and treats as one of the cowardly homesteaders. Shane tries to resist a showdown by ignore Calloway, even when he splashing his new shirt with whiskey. Calloway threatens him to never come back to which Shane obeys peacefully to avoid trouble.
Homesteaders who meet at the Starrett's home later that evening share stories of how Ryker has threatened all of them with "war parties." Joe bravely insists on staying on the land.When Shane enters the room, try didn't believe in him after in encounter with Calloway, seeing him as a weakling. The drifter is again humiliated and shunned when his avoidance of violence, to lay aside his buckskin past, is mistaken for cowardice. Joe defends Shane, but the latter leaves the meeting anyway. Joey overheard the entire meeting and his mother warns him about being too attached to Shane.
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