They all need to have their last names.
In his memoir, Sampson Davis describes the experience of growing up in Newark. He tells us that he came from an impoverished background, and that he faced enormous difficulties and obstacles in order to become a doctor. However, even after he became a doctor, Davis believed it was important for him to come back and become a beacon of hope for other people who had grown up in the same difficult environment. He wanted to come back and show young people that it was possible for them to change their lives through education.
I feel like he felt happy that he took the road because it had made all the difference. At the end there is a sense of melancholy but also excitement, the end is slightly unclear whether or not it is an simple impactful choice or how the author interprets the choice whose impact is unclear.
