"Bicycle Love" response

The theme of Goodspeed's essay, "Bicycle Love" is: a pilgrimage alone can create new beginnings from hard endings. When Goodspeed made major life changes, she decided to take a trip to France. This voyage gave her a fresh perspective on life. Green Knees got a divorce and was on a pilgrimage hike where she took time to figure out what lied ahead for her life. One use of effective language was when she says, "When an afternoon rainstorm rolled through, I stopped riding and started to cry,"(Goodspeed 142). This was a well worded visual of one type of rainstorm to a metaphorical rainstorm which shows the emotions that happens on a life changing journey. Another example of effective language is when she says, "I wasn't afraid anymore,"(Goodspeed 147). It felt like a revelation as the sentence was being read, putting the reader right there by her side.

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