1. Genre: a combination of narration and discussion, with two strands running through it:
---one is the account of the changes that occurred to his mother after her last bad fall
---the other is his reflection of parent-child disconnection
2. Typical writing technique: flashbacks
3. Parallelism and Repetition
1) And so she was, a formidable woman, determined to speak her mind, determined to have her way, determined to bend those who opposed her.
determined: repetition
Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level.
2) She ran after chickens, … She ran when she made the beds, ran when she set the table. … she ran.
parallelism
ran: Repetition is a major rhetorical strategy for producing emphasis, clarity, amplification, or emotional effect.

