The memoir is in first person the whole time and it has the narrator reflecting on his/her trip to Six Flags Great America with his family. It doesn’t contain dialogue, but it is filled with what the narrator is thinking, like how hot it is and what he thinks of the Superman ride. The narrator describes the icy feeling of the water compared to the oven like temperature. He/she will never forget the fun and how glad he was to go to the amusement park. I chose this memoir because it was written by someone from Illinois, and I love going to Six Flags with my family, too. I can put myself in the narrator’s shoes, waiting in a long line on a blistering hot day, praying the line will move quickly, waiting in anticipation for the thrill roller coasters have. He doesn’t go in depth with other characters because the memoir is more of a single person memoir, it is about an event that is focused on the narrator and he is so anxious to ride the coasters that he can block the rest of the characters out. Obviously the family is still there, but they aren’t important to the retelling of the story.
