What accounts for the narrator’s struggles with her dad?
The narrator Sarah Vowell grew up in Oklahoma. Her father was a gunsmith and Sarah didn't completely support it. Her struggles come from her experiences and strong views. Some experiences being one day Sarah's sister, father and her went to a shooting range. Sarah held a pistol and shot it. She recalled that when she shot the gun it flung her backwards. She knew from a bad experience that guns were not for her. Maybe Sarah felt bad that her sister on the "other hand" was very interested in guns. It was something that her sister and father could share and maybe the narrator felt jealous or guilty for not taking pride in her fathers work. Her reluctance in family activities might have made her bitter.
The narrator also shares one experience of not having so much reluctance and struggle with her father. The day he shot the canon. Immediately Sarah's father is suspicious when she says she wants come all the way to Montana to watch him shoot off the canon. When they set the canon off in the mountains they both are amazed by it. Sarah and her father are bonding on a whole new level.
Catherine,
ReplyDeleteIm sure that anyways would feel the same way about guns if they had a bad experience like the narrator did. BUt the fact that guns grew on her the more she was around them probably made the father quite happy. When she fell in love with the cannon the father was ecstatic and it made the daughter want to go out more often. After a bad experience of shooting a gun it takes a while to get over it.
I agree that Sarah's struggles with her dad started when she fired the gun. Sarah did not see what her dad and sister liked about guns and shooting them. The cannon showed that Sarah and her dad are not so different as states. With the firing of the cannon they saw eye to eye on something.
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ReplyDeleteAT the end your right they did bond on a whole new level. I didn't think of it as you said that maybe she was jealous that her sister and her dad had a bond with guns that she couldn't relate to. but towards the end she was able to bond with him and truly the bond they had isn't even close to the one her father and her had at the mountains.
Xochilt
I didn't think about the jealousy aspect at all. She might of felt this way towards her sister because she didn't have the father daughter bond quite like them. Her fathers suspicion was good evidence that they needed to mend their relationship. But feeling this way about your siblings when you growing up is pretty common I believe.
ReplyDeleteI didnt agree with the jealousy, I just think that she was not into the guns, western movies, and she had diffetent political views as her father and her sister. Yes, she did bond with her dad and realized that although they had diffetent interest in a lot of things, they still had lots in common.
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