Analysis Of You Are Your Bike By Mary Roach

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In my story “You Are Your Bike” by Mary Roach, she shares many opinionated facts in her writing, but one particularly stands out to me. In her first sentence she declares, “A stingray is a flat, gray, marine creature with little about it to capture one’s fancy.” This fact shares good relevance to the story where she creates her opinion about how she wonders why they would name her marvelous Schwinn bike after a dull, boring, bottom feeding, sea creature. She basically states her opinion throughout the whole story about how no other bike could compare to her Schwinn Sting-Ray I. In Mary’s opinion she talks about how her bike is the best, even though Becky Balch had the same bike that was decorated with girlie details it still couldn't compare

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