100 Miles Per Hour Poem

100 Miles per Hour, Upside Down and Sideways
Rick Bragg’s 100 Miles per Hour, Upside Down and Sideways was a true story about the author, who was a young boy at the time. It seemed at a young age Rick Bragg was a lover for fast muscle cars, he loved everything about the cars, the rumble of the engine, the speed and the burning of the rubber when he punched the gas. Using vivid imagery through-out his story to show his memory from that summer before his senior year for the reader to get a clear image of what he went through. Bragg also takes a familiar topic that a lot of people could relate to, to make his memory more meaningful to more people. The story 100 miles per hour, upside down and sideways is a great memory from Rick Braggs that can connect many people to one past memory. Rick Bragg’s since a young age had been in love with everything about fast muscle cars and the summer before his senior year he had finally gotten one. This car became his love, for example in a …show more content…
Some people can easily relate to a memory even if it never happened them. Either it could have happened to a family member, a close friend, in a movie, or they seen it happened. Braggs uses his memory of the wreck in his story. But he know that not everyone who reads it will have the memory he does or have actually been in a wreck like he has. The way he describes it to his reader he gives insight on how he felt about the car, what happened during the wreck and after. Many people wouldn’t be able to relate to the story, so he went into detail for example, “Instead of lying broken and bleeding on the ground beside my car, or headless, I just sat there upside down.” As the reader we do not know how bad the wreck was or how bad it could have been until he describes how it was for him after the car had finished flipping and spinning. The memory can be related with anyone and anyway just because of how he describes