Analysis Of The Men We Carry In Our Minds

Professor, Scott Sanders, in his essay about social class and gender equality, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”, discus his point of view of men and goes in depth about all the hardworking men in his childhood and the pain they went through in paragraphs 10-15. Sanders’ purpose is to show that the men in his childhood worked so hard and no hope to get better or get help. He adapts a hopeless tone by structuring his essay as an illustration and using different writing styles such as using similes, figurative language, diction and parallelism. He using this in order to show how the men in his childhood looked and did to the intended reader, males and females. I don’t want the stress and frustration with late bills. I don’t want to worry about losing hair or pulling my hair apart, late nights with …show more content…
A husband that will risk his own well being for his family. A strong, muscular, healthy husband that knows how to defend for himself and me too. A husband that isn’t scared to stand up for his family and me. Especially when someone snobby like a friend talks bad about me or my family in front of him when I’m not there. He will have the strength and the heart to get back up after he was knocked down to still protect this family. He doesn’t need to fight someone to protect his family but he needs to speak up for his family. My husband needs to treat me with a ton of respect. He needs to respect my body figure and the way I do things. He needs to view me in a positive way but not a negative way as he would do to women on the streets selling themselves. My husband will open the door for me, cover me when it’s raining, see me as independent. But my husband needs to know when to please my sexual needs. My husband will be the one to take control and just go with it. My husband knows when to respect me but also knows how to sexually treat me. In the end he still needs to see me as a respected person that doesn’t need