Sanders

1. In paragraphs 17 and 26-28, Sanders describes how he puts a wall to divide a room. You can visualize what Sanders is doing from the descriptions given in the essay. At the end of the essay, Sanders feels the need to describe so clearly because he wants to signify the end of his work with the wall and the end of his father's life.

2. Sanders uses chronological order in this essay by using a narrative story frame. He would first discuss about his past then go into the present. The past is mainly about his father teaching him how to use tools that he now owns and the present is mainly about him building the wall when finding out his father's death and his daughter's gerbils.

3. A "dawn stone" is one of the earliest forms of a hammer, which was used to grind corn and break bones. He describes it in the essay because throughout time the "dawn stone" hasn't changed and has been passed down from generation to generation just as his grandfather's tools were passed down to his father and then to him.