"The Inheritance of Tools"

Questions for Active reading

1.- Sanders is extremely descriptive. He describes every step at some point that you loose the verb and the subject of the sentence. Maybe he wanted to describe clearly each step because he remembers everything about that day like it was yesterday because he felt this awful feeling, that he didn't know what to do, because of his father's death.

2.- He first started talking about the hammer. Saying all the history of the hammer and explaining it. After that he explained a little bit of his past of how he learned about construction. He starts talking about something and he jumps into another subject and after that he comes again to the subject he was talking at first. he really doesn't have an organized essay. It seems that he wanted to say so many things at the same time that he joint everything.

3.- A "down stone" is a unworked stone that people used to use in the past as a hammer. He said that it hasn't change that much since then.