The Inheritance of Tools

1. Sanders uses the wall as a setpoint for his narrative story. As welearn more about the completion of the wall, the more we learn about whats happening in his life. Being a family of carpenters through out the generations each memeber found passion in building with wood creating houses, toys and furniture. We are given pieces of information of about how his farther died and what bond they all shared through a chronological time period based on the completion of the wall.

2. As sanders starts to the story he tells of the present day talking about his family and starting to build the wall for his daughters room. Its a unique way of telling a story reverting to his past by using the completion of the wall. He starts by hitting his thumb he refers to sayings that his father would tell him, that his before would tell. Setting about an introduction to learn more about his grandfather and how the family became carpenters. Through the passing of the hammer we learn how about how his father sparked his intrigue into carpentry. He then goes on to talk about days before his father died and how he almost tore down the wall for his daughters gerbils. This give more insight to his immediate family and his tools and proffessions influence them. As he reaches the day of completion we find out thats the day his father died which draws the story to close surronding alot of emotion into this building of wall. Something we say everyday and take for granted this writer gave it emotion and good story to read.

3. A dawn stone is merely a rock that was used as a simple tool for everyday usuage. It proved an effective tool for carrying out tasks. HE is using these tools to reference to his own. Even though there was a great deal of time that went by from the creation of the dawnstone the idea of the hammer is still the same, used for hardness to carry out tasks there is no real distinction between the job it carries out.