| I, Pencil - By Leonard E. Read |
Paraphrasing
I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read explains how amazing the pencil really is. It challenges us with not being able to say “I know how the pencil is made”. Pencil does not give a brief over view of the process but incorporates family history throughout the process. Not only are the machines that make pencils are a part of that family history but the machines that make those machines are also part of the pencils history. The components of the pencil are not just materials like rubber, paint and brass but careful decisions that have been thought out to please the consumers. Even though Pencil can extend its family tree lots of people know very little in how it’s made. The pencil is made up of many natural elements like wood, brass and rubber. The knowledge of how Pencil was made “can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing.” Pencil mentions that the lesson is to not be contained and let your creative side flow free.
Quotes
1.“Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents. But I would like to suggest enough of them to impress upon you the richness and complexity of my background.”
2.“How many skills went into the making of the tint and the kilns, into supplying the heat, the light and power, the belts, motors, and all the other things a mill requires?”
3.“I, Pencil seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth.”
Analysis
I think pencil is trying to get people to see how connected everyone can be. When it mentions all the components make it and then being such a small object it makes me think how any people can be connected by a bigger object and what the significant to it all is. |
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