Question

Read this passage. Use details from the text to explain how Kamen supports his opinion that making things out of metal was enjoyable. Passage - My next challenge was that I wanted to make things out of metal, so I became interested in how to use a lathe, a milling machine, and so on. I went to buy this new equipment I thought I'd need and met a man who had a machine shop of his own who was about to retire and move to Florida. He allowed me to visit him after school and on weekends to observe how he used all his tools. I was hooked. When he retired I bought not only all his big equipment but all his little toolboxes as well – they were treasures!

Answer 1

Kamen supports his opinion that making things out of metal was enyoyable  because he uses the following expressions:

1. " I became interested in  ........a lathe, a milling machine....". He shows his positive  attitude towards  different tools. Tools that are used to make things out of metal.
2. " I was hooked." This means that the writer's attention had been caught. The owner  of a machine shop  had invited him to vistit his shop at any time and this offer  really tempted the writer.
3. " I bought not only all his big equipment but all his little toolboxes as well " Kamen is describing with enthusiasm his decision. He liked machines so much he had decided to buy them all. He had bought big and small things. He describes this enthusiatically when he uses the words in bold type.
4. "they were treasures!" Kamen makes a conclusion and he calls all the things treasures. All the things were the things from the machine shop and they were extremely valuable for him.

Answer 2

Details frome the text that supports Kamen opinion that making things out of metal was enjoyable.

• He uses the phrase "I was hooked."  Hooked is an adjective used to express that you enjoy something so much that you cannot stop doing it
• "...They were treasures!" This expression is used to note the excitement Kamen has to be able of buying all the equipment and the little toolboxes  to the man.
• Finally, another detail we can see it detaches from the text is the point that Kamen ends up buying every machine and toolbox from the man as a closure of his so called self-put challenge