Week 7, Dialogue; "Shooting Dad"

"Luckily, both my parents grew up in exasperationg households where children were considered puppets and/or slaves".

This statement of Sarah's about her dad and mom tells the reader a lot about Sarah's relationship with her parents. When reading this essay, at first, it seemed that her dad and she were at odds with one another. Reading more closely I see where even though her dad was adament about how he felt about guns and his own political views, he gave Sarah and her sister the choice to explore their own set of beliefs and values. Certainly this was how Sarah developed her independence from her parents and becomes her own individual with a strong personality. Sound familiar?
Sarah, while growing up, I'm sure had some frustration as all children do in adolescence, with their parents, but we see in her essay how much she and her dad are alike, even with their differences. She even tells us that when older she decided to try "to figure out the whole gun thing". From her written essay and the audio, the love she has for her dad comes through and she respected his views and beliefs. At the end she wanted to light the canon and blow her dad's ashes into the hillside but this time she would not wear the earplugs because she wanted the noise to hurt her ears. I think Sarah wanted to feel and hear her dad's voice for the last time.