"The Men We Carry in Our minds"

1. Sanders immediately acknowledges about the physical conditions about the men he knew when he was a boy because he saw them work so hard that their bodies were damaged. "The bodies of the men were twisted and maimed...The nails of their hands were black and split, the hands tattooed with scars...Some had lost their fingers.(3)" Sanders also saw how the laborers worked so hard all year round with no breaks, later this leads to the laborers. "Their ankles and knees ached from years of standing on the concrete. Anyone who had worked for long around machines was hard of hearing.(3)" The men worked so hard that their health started to deteriorate.

2. Sanders characterizes the soldiers he knew when he was growing up as men "who did not sweat and break down like mules." From his point of view Sanders says that the soldiers hardly worked all day in comparison to the laborers, but they were all willing to risk their life and put it on the lines when the war came to them. "They were all waiting-like so many braves waiting for the hunt to begin." This shows that indeed they were just waiting for the moment of the fight. The moment that would test the skills they learned as soldiers.

3. As a young boy Sanders had only seen the laborers who worked all their life and the soldiers who waited for the moment of the fight. Seeing only this two types of men is what led him to not imagine that he could aspire to be an engineer, or any of the men he saw on television. Since he was grew up seeing laborers work their life off and the soldiers waiting to go to war he assumed that all he could aspire to be was a laborer, laborers' boss and a soldier.

4. Sanders' father seemed to have partially changed by going from the "tire factory,and from the assembly line to the front office." Regardless of the partial escape his father was still affected by the year he had worked at "red-dirt farm", his father escaped from working his whole life until he died. His health was still damaged from the years he worked at the farm and carried over till he worked at the office.

5. The specific contrast that he between college men and women that he later understands are that men assumed that they would be rich since the very moment they were born because their fathers had been "rich." The contrast of women is that they complained about men having things easy and having more advantages. In his opinion Sanders think that women have the better life although; they spend most of the time tending the kids and being locked at home doing chores they do not get to work as hard as men do.

6.What tbrings lower- class men and women together are the desires they all have to make their lives different and to become better people. The realities they have in common is that they have the future in their hands and can change the world world to make it better.

7. What the college women have in common with the author of this essay is that they are interested in the arts and becoming better people for the good of the world.