Friday, November 20, 2009

The Men We Carry in Our Mind "Thinking about the text"

1.Sanders acknowledges that the bodies of the men he knew were worn out, they were twisted and maimed by the hard labor they went thru everyday. “The nails of their hands were black and split, the hands tattooed with scars. Some had lost fingers” “Their ankles and knees ached from years of standing on concrete” p. 56

2.For Sanders, the soldiers were the ones who did not sweat and whose chief fact of life was boredom, the ones who didn’t have a say when or how a battle would be waged, but when the hour killing arrived, they would kill.

3.After living among poor men, who were bound to work as their fathers had worked, killing themselves or preparing to kill others, he couldn’t image growing up to be one of the other type of men, those who were bosses, the savvy lawyers or the generals because that was his boyhood vision of men destinies.

4.Sander’s father’s fate seemed a partial escape from the fate of most men he knew because even though his father went from working on a red dirt farm to a tire company, and from the assembly line to the front office this didn’t mean that everyone would have the same opportunities as his father did and so they were bound to follow the path their fathers had lay for them.

5.According to Sanders, women had “the better life” because they didn’t have to break their backs or had to go to war like the men he knew from his childhood.
6.Since both lower class men and women share the fact of being poor, both of them struggle, men have to break their backs just to get some money while women have to break their heads rationing the money.

7.Sanders wanted to share the power and glory of the fathers of the college educated women just as much as they did, they both wanted jobs worthy of their abilities, for the right to live at peace, unmolested.

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