In the short story Life’s Bicycle, the writer tells a story about daily life. Usually all little kids learn to ride a bike and most times, something like what happened to the little boy, happens to others. It was a short story that wrote about a life experience that most people go through, about daily life, and everyone can relate to it. The memoir is focused on a single moment, the boy getting the training wheels off his bike, riding it on his own, falling down, and having his mother clean him up. It all could’ve happened in a couple minutes, it is just about a single moment. The story is all in the present, he wrote it like it was actually happening, not flashing back or in the future. It expresses a emotional response because the little boy falls and is bleeding, he cries and you can relate to that pain of falling off a bike. It uses a very strong word choice; even though it was from a little kid’s perspective the words are mature and strong. The story also uses a lot of dialoged and thought, the boy talks to his mother about falling and being hurt. He also is thinking about how excited he is to finally ride a bike by himself, and once he falls and his mother is taking care of him he realizes that he is ok, he feels better and just wants to go back out and do it again.