Thursday, September 25, 2008

Questions for Active Reading p.233

1. Examine the details Sanders gives about building a wall to divide a room. Can you clearly visualize what Sanders is doing at each step? Is each concept clearly defined? Why, at the end of the essay, does Sanders feel the need to describe so clearly each step in the process?

The angles must be right and you have to use good tools. I think it's very unclear what Sanders is doing at each step. Maybe because he was thinking back at what his father would have said.

2. How does Sanders use chronological order in this essay? What objects, images, or ideas connect the different periods of time that he describes?

Sanders is jumpig between time in this essay. He is using his father, grandfather and him self to jump between time. First he tells us about one of them and then he jumps to one other.

3. What is a "dawn stone"? Why does Sanders describe it in this essay, and what does it represent to him?

A "dawn sone" is an unworked stone, that served as the earliest hammers. He sais that it's been a long time since they started to use the dawn stones but the desing or imaginations haven't changed that much.

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