Memoir/Reflection: Pequeno, Check. Mate?
MEMOIR/REFLECTION
Examining models
MEMOIR/REFLECTION
In the following essay, Miles Pequeno uses a narrative about a chess match to describe a changing relationship with his father and preserve an important memory. He wrote this paper in response to an assignment in an upper-division college writing class.
Reading the Genre
An epiphany is a sudden moment of insight that may occur at some moment in a personal narrative, often in the conclusion. Would you describe Pequeno’s final paragraph as an epiphany? Does it seem like an appropriate ending for the piece?
