sentences:  Sargon's father worked for the British, as the rest of the men in the village, and the place of Sargon's first cherished memories.On rare occasions Sargon would accompany his father to work and he would be fascinated with the English women in their aristocratic homes, "having their tea, seemingly almost half-naked among their flowers and well-kept lawns" (Sargon, page 16) 1.This image was in such contrast to the mud huts where the Assyrians lived and different from the females he was surrounded by who were dressed in black most of the time.