Robbie Panopio AP English Language and Composition Precis: “The Men We Carry in Our Minds… and How They Differ From the Real Lives of Most Men” (Scott Russell Sanders) December 16, 2008 Scott Russell Sanders essay, The Men We Carry in Our Minds… and How They Differ From the Real Lives of Most Men examines the social class differences that men have, and how women stereotype men to always have all the joy and privileges. Sanders describe two types of males in the essay; the farming man, and the big city man. He asserts that he grew up the hard-working farm male’s life, in order to show that men aren’t just big timers of the cities, such as bankers, physicians, architects, and stockbrokers like women tend to believe that’s all they are. I believe Sanders is directing this piece towards women who only think that men only have all pleasure and joy. Vocabulary: Maim - To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. Tone: shocked Rhetorical devices Hyperbole - “The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and maimed in ways visible and invisible.” Similie – “livin aint easy especially when love is runnin from you and you that hole in yr heart” Discussion Questions Clarification: What college did he attend? Application: Does being born either sex give us an advantages or disadvantages in social class Style: Is the other biased on how men live? Quotation “I discover guilty feelings aplenty – toward the poor, the Vietnamese, Native Americans, the whales, an endless list of debts.”