In the novel Shane by: Jack Schaefer, there is a fight between the homesteaders and the ranchers. The issue makes all the people in the town react and act in very different ways. Some people flee, some people try and face their problems, but there is one man who embraces all these ways, and that is Shane. Shane has a very unknown past, but one thing is certain, he was a gunfighter. He would get paid to kill men because he was the most skillful. But, shane did not want this life anymore, he wanted a new beginning. Shane decided that he should try and run away from gunfighting and change his life. When he shows up on the Ranch Shane doesn't tell the Starretts about himself. He tries to hide the fact that he is a gunfighter so he