"Dead" and "The Bicycle"

After reading chapter two "The Bicycle," I figured out that the narrator is the son of the narrator in chapter one "Dead." When I started reading "The Bicycle," I noticed that the voice of the narrator changed and was not the same tone as the one in "Dead." I was rather confused, but I kept reading chapter two and discovered that it was a whole different person telling the story.

Characterization is present in the tone of the persons telling their story. The author also use objects to describe the characters. In "The Bicycle," the object use is indeed a bicycle, which characterizes the author's mother. The bicycle is an old fashion, used, huge piece of junk as the author describes it, but his mother continues to ride it as though she did not have a care in the world what others thought of her.

I really liked the passage when the author had to go to school on a school bus and his mother would take him to and pick him up from the bus stop. The author likes his own time with his mother and since his family is so big, he never gets time with his mother other than the time they get to spend together as they walk to and from the bus stop. One day however, the author had to learn how to walk home by himself, but he was terrified and wanted his mother there. This is ironic because the author hates seeing his mother on the streets with her bicycle as she rides on it slowly, but wants to have his own time with his mother and for his mother to walk home with him from the bus stop. I can relate to this with my parents too. Parents are pretty embarrassing and we would not want to be seen with them, but when it comes to support, we want them around to cheer us on and guide us through whatever.