Brad Manning’s essay “Arm Wresting With My Father” recollects a time where he discovers his father’s love. The story is about his childhood and his relationship with his father. In the very first sentences Manning talks about how his relationship with his father is physical, and that is how his father expresses his love. “Arm Wrestling With My Father” is an effective essay because Manning gets the purpose across and entertains the audience, and uses a variety of sentence structures throughout the essay. In the story, “Arm Wrestling With My Father” it talks about the relationship Manning has with his father and how it changes over time. When he was little he would never win the arm wrestling fights, and his father would always win. He would try so hard to use all of his will power to try and beat his father; it never worked. When they first began to wrestle, Manning loved it and he would get so happy even if he lost. He just liked knowing the fact that his dad was very …show more content…
Throughout the story Manning tries to entertain the audience by the wrestling scenes and how mad he would get when his father would win. He thought of his arms as “lanky and featureless” (158). He thought of himself as a lesser person and had a self-esteem issue when his father would win. Manning would also come to tell the audience how he would try so hard and he wanted to be just like his father, but it just would not work. He was not built like his father. In the essay it also shows how people can express their love for others in different ways. Manning’s father showed his love towards him in a physical manner. People can change over time and they can begin to express their love in another way as well. Manning showed how his father changed from just having a physical love and playing sports and wrestling with him to hugging him and telling him he loved his