Rhetorical Analysis Of Sarah Vowell

Speaker: The narrative voice in the text is Sarah Vowell. Vowell provides the reader with hints that she possesses a liberal quality that is contrary to judgements of her father whom seems to align with a conservative way of thinking. An example of this would be when Vowell quotes, “I’m not saying who was the Democrat or who was the Republican – my father or I – but I will tell you that I have never subscribed to Guns & Ammo, that I did not plaster the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers, and that hunter’s orange was never my color.” Vowell introduces some of thoughts belonging to her father, in which the reader can evaluate those characteristics and align them with them to match the qualities of being a liberal or a conservative thinker. Indeed, it is …show more content…
Vowell may have utilized the arguments, not necessarily as a memoir of what her teen years were like with her father, but rather as an understanding about how the qualities and thoughts that she possessed have defined her.Vowell’s essay deeply addresses that while she and her father had different ideas, they both shared the similarity of creativity, in which both had the ability to see art, yet in different …show more content…
Vowell also encourages one to make connections as to how two people who hold such different ideas can be both creative artists at the same time.Vowell discovers that she and her father are creative in their own ways. She discovers this when she watches her father shoot his canon while recording some of the sounds produced by the canon for a project. “I stare back at him, then I look