Shooting Dad Rhetorical Analysis
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Damage Due to Firearms: How Guns Disassociated Sarah Vowell From Her Father In the essay “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell, we see how guns affected the relationship between Vowell and her father. From her childhood to her adult years, she was never a particular fan of guns; since her father was a gunsmith, they never had much in common. Even though guns were not the only thing they disagreed on, it caused a huge disconnection between them because it is something they were both passionate about. As an attempt to be persuasive, Vowell uses anecdotes throughout her essay to illustrate her point, help the audience understand her view on guns, and show the relationship she had with her father. One of the anecdotes Vowell used is when she and her family moved form Oklahoma to Montana when she was just eleven years old. She shows the difference between the two states, concerning guns, which does not make her father happy:
I knew our lives had changed one morning…[when] my father heard a noise and jumped out of his chair. Grabbing a BB gun, he rushed out the front door. Standing in the yard, he started shooting at crows. My mother sprinted after …show more content…
She knew that she needed to find a way to connect with him before it was too late. It would be difficult because they always disagreed on everything: “About the only thing my father and I agree on is the Constitution, though I’m partial to the First Amendment, while he’s always favored the Second” (412). Even their political stance was different. One of them was a Republican and one was a Democrat, and she points out that the guns are mainly what caused that difference. She writes, “I have never subscribed to Guns & Ammo, [and] I did not plaster the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers” (412). Although these differences might be hard for them to overlook, she was destined to change their
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Damage Due to Firearms: How Guns Disassociated Sarah Vowell From Her Father In the essay “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell, we see how guns affected the relationship between Vowell and her father. From her childhood to her adult years, she was never a particular fan of guns; since her father was a gunsmith, they never had much in common. Even though guns were not the only thing they disagreed on, it caused a huge disconnection between them because it is something they were both passionate about. As an attempt to be persuasive, Vowell uses anecdotes throughout her essay to illustrate her point, help the audience understand her view on guns, and show the relationship she had with her father. One of the anecdotes Vowell used is when she and her family moved form Oklahoma to Montana when she was just eleven years old. She shows the difference between the two states, concerning guns, which does not make her father happy:
I knew our lives had changed one morning…[when] my father heard a noise and jumped out of his chair. Grabbing a BB gun, he rushed out the front door. Standing in the yard, he started shooting at crows. My mother sprinted after …show more content…
She knew that she needed to find a way to connect with him before it was too late. It would be difficult because they always disagreed on everything: “About the only thing my father and I agree on is the Constitution, though I’m partial to the First Amendment, while he’s always favored the Second” (412). Even their political stance was different. One of them was a Republican and one was a Democrat, and she points out that the guns are mainly what caused that difference. She writes, “I have never subscribed to Guns & Ammo, [and] I did not plaster the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers” (412). Although these differences might be hard for them to overlook, she was destined to change their