Mary Kehoe’s memoir of the Chicago Fire was very intriguing due to the amount of detail she was able to provide about her experience with the Chicago Fire. She wrote the memoir because her granddaughter requested her recollection of the fire. In the document, she begins by setting the scene of the day before the fire, October 8, 1871. She describes her family which is comprised of herself, whom is sixteen years old, her sister Kate, her brother Bernard, her twin half-sisters, her dad, and her step mother. A conversation she has with her dad informs us that she is working and comes from a working-class family. Throughout her memoir she is able to recall specifically what her and her sibling do while the fire is occurring. Almost everything
