The document summarizes two stories about difficult father-son relationships where chess games and arm wrestling matches were how the fathers bonded with their sons. In the first story, a son named Miles could only get his father's attention by winning at chess every time they played. In the second story, the author Brad Manning would always lose to his father in arm wrestling as a kid but later decided not to beat his father as an adult to avoid hurting him. Both stories convey the lesson that winning isn't necessary to prove yourself to someone and making the right decision is most important.

2. • This essay talks about a father and son relationship, which has
a special bond during a game of chess. A game of chess is the
only time Miles (the son) gets his fathers attention (also
wining everytime).
• Their relationship has always been complicated. They were
close in a different way. His father always pushed him to do
his best since he was little.
• He never took him to see a game or play catch with him.His
father came to suburbs of Houston from Mexico always
catching up and working up in the world.
• One day after 10 years things changed, Miles had lost for the
first time.

4. • Stated in the essay written by Brad Manning “Arm
Wrestling with My Father”, he also had difficulty
bonding with his dad. Their bonding was through
arm wrestling matches, which in this case Brad
would always lose (as a kid). Later on when he had
came to visit from college he arm wrestled his dad
again, now his dad was weak. As they arm wrestled
he saw the struggle in his fathers face knowing he
was going to lose, but Brad didn’t want to see his
father lose. At that moment he knew that he didn’t
need to win because now he had proven he wasn’t
as weak as he used to.
• Both stories give life lessons; you don’t need
to win to prove something to someone.
Making the right decision is all that you need.

5. • The Elements used here is transition, he starts off
by talking about his childhood how he was
forced to grow up. Then how all of the sudden
the “training wheels came off” and now nothing
is being handed to him anymore.
• The author has used dialog to express the
excitement and other feelings in the worlds he
says.
• He gave many specific details all that pertain to
the story never getting way off topic.

6. • I learned that not all parents are the same,
they have their own way of bonding and
teaching a lesson.
• I like how the story was told, how it gave great
descriptions and taught a lesson to young
Miles in the end.
• Nothing is handed to you, you work for what
you want.

7. • Miles Pequeno, Check, Mate? English 102, May 12, 20--.
• Brad Manning. Arm Wrestling with My Father. Virginia.