1. "A week or so later a white scar in the shape of a crescent moon began to show above the cuticle, and month by month it rose across the pink sky of my thumbnail." I just found it engaging for Sander's use of imagery to describe his swollen thumb after slamming a hammer on it.
2. ex 1. "My cobbled-together guitars might have been alien spaceships, my barns might have been models of Aztec temples"
ex 2. "He learns how to swing a hammer from the elbow instead of the wrist, how to lay his thumb beside the blade to guide a saw, how to tap a chisel with a wooden mallet, how to mark a hole with an awl before starting a drill bit."
3. The section about the gerbils was organized in a way similar to a story. Each paragraph was created when a new thought was formed, each kind of...layering one another, overlapping.
4. I'm not really sure if I'm answering this question correctly (mostly because I'm really confused right now) but in the gerbil section, he was able to save his daughter's gerbils from (possible) death. The conclusion that came shortly after started with his father's death. Sanders couldn't do anything to save his father from his death. There was no door he could open, no wall he could tear down to bring his father back. However, all of the lessons he learned from his father as a child, was something that he has to keep his father living through him. So he continued building, just as his did his entire life before passing.
5. To his daughter, the gerbils in the wall is a "calamity", a circumstance in which she's crying for rescue. The radio was giving out worldwide catastrophes where people are crying for rescue, too. If Sanders had to rescue those people from those kinds of situations, he would be afraid of failing, or even just not being able to handle the situation, but the situation he's in right now was something he could handle and could do without fail.
6. Sanders compares his hammer to other classics from history such as the greek vases or "dawn stones". These historic artifacts have a timeless beauty to them; comparing his hammer to them, Sanders insists that his hammer has a timeless beauty to it, too.
7. He's working and living just as his father did before him. Now that his father has passed, he lives on with the lessons and every technique his father taught him. The last sentence was him acting upon some of the many timeless lessons his father taught him when he was young.
Welp. I tried.
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