“Arm_Wrestling_With_My_Father”

“Arm Wrestling With My Father” No matter how much we all do not want to become our parents, it is bound to happen. The essay “Arm Wrestling with My Father” by Brad Manning suggests that it is inevitable for a father and son to switch roles as they get older. It is a part of growing old. You are destined to grow older and with growing older comes a point where you can grow weaker. In many father-son relationships it is hard to show affection. As men, they must keep to their “macho” standards by showing they care in different ways. Manning talks about how his father knew nothing about the sport he was playing but still insisted on showing him how it was played. He says that his father did not try to communicate through simpler forms of love, he would try to show him through sports and “manly” ways. Even though he showed him the wrong way to play lacrosse, the son knew that this was a way his father was showing him he cared and that he loved him. Pretending to know something that you know nothing about is certainly love. Another way that they showed affection was by arm wrestling. Ever since father, manning, now, roles, older, love, showing, show, affection, way, time, switch, stronger, son, men, inevitable, becoming, arm, always, about, wrestling, weaker, ways, try, through, switching, sport, showed, relationships, playing, paragraph, nothing, macho, lose, know, knew