ll Italian farming villages. Sacco was from an upper-middle class farming family. He was the third of seventeen children. His father owned land and had hired hands that would work with Sacco in the fields. Sacco was never really one for formal education. He was just a hard worker with good family values . So why did he turn to anarchism?
             Much of the same could be said for Vanzetti. He came a slightly smaller family that had just decent socio-economic status it his hometown. He was formally educated and excelled quickly. But his father removed him from his studies to learn a trade when he had heard that several layers were applying for the same job with less pay than a tradesman would be earning. Forty-two men competing for one position that paid thirty-five lire. Eventually Vanzetti was placed in an apprentice –ship for a bakers trade. He was away from his home for several years at the age of thirteen, working late and lonely hours. The only way he found to entertain himself was with random readings and religion. Vanzetti was a devout Catholic. He loved his mother more than anything else, and to be away from her made his heath slowly deteriorated. He was returned home to help his health return. Shortly after Vanzetti recovered his mother fell ill with cancer. She was in constant pain for three months. In the last few weeks of her life her suffering was so intense that her husband could no longer bear to witness her pain. This left Vanzetti to care for his mother alone. She would eventually die in his arms. He later stated that he buried part of himself when he buried his mother. He was so distressed that he would go days with out speaking. Following these events he never had a relationship with any woman besides his mother . Her death scared him to the point were he was not able to speak of his mother even during his time in jail, more than 10 years after his mother had died. When he boarded with a co-worker's family the...