Shooting Dad is my favorite story we have read yet. It was different from all the other stories because it had a positive ending and no body actually ended up dying, which is what I expected to happen. I kind of thought that Sarah Vowell was going to actually shoot her Dad in some way before when I just read the title and not the story. It was cool how the title and the last line of this story go with each other, because she will literally be shooting her Dad even though he will have already passed away.
This is an extremely cool story of how opposite a daughter and dad could be and how an object brought their relationship closer together. When Sarah Vowell was a teenager growing up, she talked about how her home was like a Civil War battleground because her dad and her were just complete opposites. I think a lot of teenagers go through this type of thing by being the complete opposite of what their parents are like. It's a teenagers way of trying to find independence and their self for that matter. I went through something similar with my Mom, for a good three years we would butt heads about almost everything but then about a year ago I opened my eyes more and saw my mom's view on things and I didn't feel the need to argue back anymore. I guess this was a way of me just maturing in life and it sounds like this sort of happened to Sarah Vowell in some ways. She was able to find something that she kind of enjoyed doing with her father and she even noticed how her and her Dad were alike by her microphone and his cannon.
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