Thinking about the Text "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"

1.Sander remembers seeing the working men, beat tried of the harsh labor brought upon them. “They got up before light, worked all day long whatever the weather, and when they came home at night they looked as though somebody had been whipping them”(p56).He recalls the how the men’s hand” were black and split, the hands tattooed with scars. Some had lost fingers”(p56).

2.The other men Sander knew as growing up were the men who did not break a sweat or break down like mules. None of the soldiers he knew worked they were always ready for war, ready to kill.

3.The other men Sander saw while growing up was the men on television, the astronauts, the generals, the philosophers. To him these jobs were to unreal for him to reach he stopped imaging he could become them.

4.Sanders father worked hard to get his white collar job. He had to start from the bottom and work him self all the way to the top. To overcome the oppression of the beating hard job he use to work.

5.Sanders implies that upper class college women have it a lot easier then men do in . While in college a lot of women would tell him that men took all the privileges that life offered because they were simply men.

6.I think what brings both “lower-class” men and women together is the struggles and obstacles both of them go through. Men in a lower class society usually have a lot of pressure by the family and peers, since the society norm is that men bring the “bacon” to the table. For women it goes along side with how they provide for there children. Say if these women have children it’s a struggle for them to provide a meal and shelter for their children. In my opinion its hard for both there’s no discrimination, it’s a struggle both live through.

7.What the college women and Sanders have in common is, both of them want to be able to treasure the pleasures that life offers to them, without any bias also the privileges they earned from the struggles as men and women.