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The Art of the Lathe was written by B.h. Fairchild, It's the kind of book you don't want to put down its good. The Art of the Lathe was a book full of poems, which were about factory life, the good and bad things that happen. This book shows you how there's always going to be bad and good in everything you do. Like working in a factory your hole life you would think that there wouldn't be anything good that comes out of it. In the Art of the Lathe there are many things shown that are good. The historical part of this book connects back to the days where everything was made with factories and everyone depened on them for everything. In this book it talks about different peoples expericences with of factories. There are alot of things from this book that would give you a perspective on different things. There are alot of things talked about.

This book has alot to do with the historcal events during the days where everyone worked in factories, and when they made very little money for doing so. From one of the poems in the book which was called smoking, it talked about when they'd go out and smoke and how it was such a popular thing that was done. Everyone during this time was a smoker because they didn't know how bad it was for you. Most of the book focus on the work of the middle class. Things like machine shops and oil fields of rural Kansas. The Art of the Lathe's main focus was on teaching about how different life use to be and showing how that in any life time there are always means for living your life. These people in the Art of the Lathe didn't have much to live for, but they showed how one little thing could help them get through a bad time.

Having diffculties when living wasn't something that people of this century just came upon. This is something that has been going on for a very long time. Having a hard life is something that people from all generations have had to deal with, like during this book everyone had something they had to work through. The Art of the Lathe teaches alot of thing, one being that hardship is a very hard thing to deal with, everyone has to deal with it and it's been around for ever. The poems from the Art of the Lathe really how the hardsips, like in the poem Hitchcock it shows how living in all of these new places can be hard but it can always get better. No matter what century you live it there's always going to be something you'll have to deal with thats hard to do.

When reading this book it makes you think about the different things you have gone through, like how people have help you through hard times. Like in this book pretty much everything they did was a hard time just because of the day and age they were living in. Most of the peoms wouldn't talk about this directly, it would be shown by the way the people were acting towards things that they had to do.

The Art of the Lathe was a book full of poems, about factory life the good and bad things that went on. The history of the book came in when it was shown that everyone and everything was in the olden days. It was easy to tell what day and age they were in, just because of some of the things they did. Having a hard time with life in general is something everyone has to go through in this book it's a little more to deal with sence this is there hole life. The importance of realizing that hardship is something that you can grow from is a big thing. When reading this book you can tell that these people had no hope. Having hope and knowing that theres going to be an end to the bad, is the best thing to think about.