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"Perhaps at that point I could have given up, letting my father win...lifting him onto my shoulders, and running."

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"Perhaps at that point I could have given up, letting my father win...lifting him onto my shoulders, and running."

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This passage is the most impactful in my opinion. This is because Manning is beginning to realize that his fathers arms have protected and carried his family throughout his whole life.  Now that he has won the arm wrestle against his father, it dawns on Manning that he is now the strong one, and must carry his father. Having realized this, Manning says, "I do not know if I will ever physically carry my father as he has carried me, though I fear that someday I may have that responsibility." This idea scares Manning, with flashes of him carrying his father after suffering a heart attack, or carrying his coffin. He says, "I might have preferred him to be always the stronger, the one who carries me." Manning is not used to being stronger than his dad, having lost every match before this pivotal point, but after something so small as winning an arm wrestling match, his whole perspective has changed. This is why this passage is the most impactful, because it illustrates Mannings thought process as his ideas about his father and his role in his family changes.

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In the final paragraph of the story, Manning repeats the word "maybe" at the beginning of several periodic sentences. He ponders, "Maybe this spring,... Maybe he has started doing pushups... Or maybe, rather than any of this, he’ll just send me a card." Manning's use of the word "maybe" first shows the hope he has for his father, but continues to show that he ultimately does not believe his father will change in the way he wishes.

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Most of Manning's narrative relies on recalled stories from his childhood. He describes specific stories, such as times they used to arm wrestle together, or the times his father would coach him after lacrosse games. The use of these anecdotes allows Manning to illustrate his father's personality and tendencies. These stories culminate at the end of his passage when he is finally able to defeat his father in arm wrestling and begins to reevaluate their relationship.

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Manning uses a metaphor to describe the changing relationship between him and his father. By saying, "I am no longer a rebel in the household, wanting to stand up against the master with clenched fists and tensing jaws," Manning explains he used to feel like a rebel against his father who felt like a master. This metaphor helps illustrate the dynamic of their household when Manning was younger, and also shows the growth and changing mindset of Manning as he ages.

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Manning uses a nostalgic and retrospective tone throughout his passage. The text opens with a vivid memory of arm wrestling his father when he was younger. He includes his father's signature quote, "'Now you say when'" and described what it was like when he faced his father in their frequent arm wrestling matches. He begins with a favorable description of his father, using a positive tone when he recalls, "And with squinting eyes, he would laugh at me, a high laugh, through his perfect white teeth."

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As he moves through his narrative, Manning's tone shifts to bitter and resentful. He begins to recall negative aspects of his father's past. Manning shares, "he would be there in the stands, with an angry look, ready to coach me after
the game on how I could do better. He never helped me write a paper or a poem." His tone changes the image of his father he had begun to depict at the beginning of the text.

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Brad Manning is a man who grew up near Charlottesville, Virginia and graduated from both Harvard and University of Virginia. He has bachelor degrees in history and religion, and completed law school at UVA. He has experience writing for the Harvard Independent and the Charlotte Observer.

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This was piece was written for Manning's freshman composition course.

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Manning explores his relationship with his father by sharing a story about their arm wrestles, which he would always lose when he was a child. But, when the game was revisited when Manning was a college student, he ended up winning the game for the first time.

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This piece was written for a class grade, the audience is Manning's course teacher or professor.

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The message that Manning is relaying in his piece is that people show their affection in different ways. In his writing Manning explains that although his dad never helped him with school work, and would be hard on him about sports, he showed his affection through arm wrestles. His father's arms had kept his family safe and supported throughout Manning's childhood.

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Manning wrote this to describe relationships between fathers and sons by explaining his relationship with his own father. He also wants to highlight the inevitable changes that occur during a father and son's relationship.