How does the narrator change positions over the course of the story in the book, The Free-Lance Pallbearers?

Narrator, Bukka Doopeyduk,is an articulate, naive young black man who appears to favor assimilation and integration at the beginning of the book: ... "it behooves me to start at the bottom and work my way up the ladder. Temperance, frugality, thrift — that kind of thing."

He later moves onto a more activist position: NOW I WAS DA ONE. NOW NOT ONLY WOULD I BE THE NAZARENE BISHOP WHICH WAS AFTER ALL PEANUTS, BUT I WAS GOING TO RUN THE WHOLE KIT AND KABOODLE. ME DICTATOR OF BUKKA DOOPEYDUK.