Reading Notes W6: Markham Part A

• The story starts off with a excerpt from the Bible, it quoted genesis about the creation of man.
• The first story reminded me of someone who was a devout hard working man.
• "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world." (Edwin Markham, "The Man with the Hoe", 294).
• The quote really shows how hard that man has been working all his life in the fields.
• The man almost has a bitter outlook on life as opposed to the man in the second story who has a more positive look on life.