Analysis Of ' Arm Wrestling With My Father ' And Shooting Dad ' By Brad Manning And Sarah Vowell

“Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell tells the interesting story of a girl with views that oppose that of her father's. Sarah’s father, Pat, works as a gunsmith and is a massive gun enthusiast, while Sarah herself is more into music. Throughout this story, Sarah relates to the reader how passionate her and her dad are about their different hobbies and perspectives. With all of the tension in the house from the drastically different points of view, they must figure out how to coexist. Sarah and her father find their bond through the joys of cannons, which also leads Sarah to the conclusion that they are not as different as she once thought. This story goes to great lengths to show the reader that just because people have differences, does not mean that they cannot or do not have similarities as well.

Everyone has a father. No matter if the father is present in a child’s life or not, he still exists and takes that role. A father has a major impact on his child whether he knows it or not, and that impact and example shapes the child’s perspective on life, and on love. The authors, Robert Hayden and Lucille Clifton, share the impact of their fathers through poetry, each with their own take on how their fathers treated them. The poems “Forgiving My Father” and “Those Winter Sundays” have significant differences in the speaker’s childhood experiences, the tone of the works, and the imagery presented, which all relate to the different themes of each poem.

Sarah Vowell’s “Shooting Dad” discusses the relationship between a daughter and father. Engaged in a lifelong opposition to her father’s politics, interests, and his work, Vowell discovers just how much she actually has in common with him. Throughout her adolescent years, she was her father’s polar opposite. Her room was littered with musical instruments, albums, and Democratic campaign posters while her father’s, an avid gunsmith, was strewn with metal shavings and Republican party posters. Amongst all this conflict, Vowell found that they had more in common with each other than either of them realized. As she looks back on her childhood, Vowell explains that although it may take a while to see and understand others’ perspectives, once you

In “Arm Wrestling with my Father” by Brad Manning uses: symbolism, tone, and imagery throughout his story. What Manning’s Story is about is Manning and his father’s tough love bond they share. The story shows us on how Manning’s father shows his affection towards his son, and its not by expressing them verbally or giving him affection, and attention like his mother would. He would only show him that he loved him through helping him in sports and arm wrestling. Throughout the story when Manning gets older his father is at an old age where Manning can beat him.

Although single parenthood is on the rise in homes today, children still often have a father role in their life. It does not matter who the part is filled by: a father, uncle, older brother, grandfather, etc...; in almost all cases, those relationships between the father (figure) and child have lasting impacts on the youth the rest of their lives. In “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” Jimmy Carter tells the audience no matter the situation with a father, hold onto every moment.

In both stories “Arm Wrestling with My Father,” and “Shooting Dad,” the authors use different rhetorical strategies that allow them to exemplify their actual feelings of how they relate to their father’s. They also employ similar rhetorical devices yet are used differently. “Ours had always been a physical relationship, I suppose, one determined by athleticism and strength.” Manning emphasizes how his relationship with his father is very physical and nonverbal. Manning describes the differences in perception of his father’s arms, symbolizing the change in their relationship that was about to take place. Whereas when Vowell states, “if you were passing by the house where I grew up during my teenage years and it happened to be before Election Day, you wouldn’t have needed to come inside to see that it was house divided,” Vowell looks back on her childhood to explain that

Sarah Vowell’s essay, Shooting Dad, is a story about how Vowell does not see eye-to-eye with her family. Vowell is interested in music while her dad is interested guns. Vowell is predominantly Democratic and her father is Republican. Even though Vowell’s father is on the different end of the political spectrum, they are both very patriotic. Vowell takes the First Amendment to heart while her dad lives by the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. Vowell’s father is also a gunsmith, so guns have become his lifework. When Vowell and her sister Amy were both younger they shot guns for their first time. In addition, Vowell doesn’t have the same interests as Amy. When Vowell and Amy shot the guns, Amy enjoyed shooting the guns and Vowell wanted

The love this father has for his son is unique and unequivocally expressed, as one will discover in this compassionate and heartwarming short essay Arm Wrestling with My Father, written by Brad Manner. Brad Manner wrote this persuasive essay for his freshman composition course, where he shared his unique relationship with his father, as the two bonded through ritualistic father-son competitive arm wrestling. His father’s arm symbolizes the strength and love he has for his son. However, as the story progresses into Manner's college years, the symbolical power and strength of his father begins to fade as his father's unwavering strength weakens with the inevitable and unforgiving progression of ageing. During an arm wrestling competition, for the first time Manner surprisingly takes his father’s

It was ice-cold throughout the atmosphere, the sun-rays couldn’t make it past the thick clouds, and the wind whipped all around the school and all I could think about was readying my performance for the judges at Terry high school. Area has always been my dream ever since I entered high school, but I had yet to achieve it. My monstrous mind and ability desperately wanted to earn that honorific badge of making it to Area and displaying that I am an elite trombonist within the Houston high school region. Coming out on top is not a very easy task to accomplish especially if it is to become the Champion of the World. This short story written by Angelou exemplifying the rejoice of coming out on top not only against another well-versed opponent

Willow Holschuh October 24th, 2014 Blackboard Assignment #3 ENCC 102 Like Father Like Son The self-identity of a child is often molded reflecting the identity of their parents. Whether this shaping of an identity pulls away positive or negative characteristics is very situational. The miracle of childbirth and responsibilities of parenthood weigh heavily on the relationships created between parents and their children. A bond genetically and emotionally built to endure these strains, is that of a father and a son.

‘Arm wrestling with my father” is an essay written by Manning in a freshman composition course. I feel that this particular essay is built on deeper meaning than what the words themselves express. Judging from the message in the essay, I believe that the reader for this essay would best be a father who has a small boy growing up in preschool. The father would be interested in reading this particular essay because it gives a detailed explanation from a son’s point of view of the how a father is supposed to relate to a son by giving a chronological record of a physical relationship between a son and a father which the son feels could have been a better probably more emotional and friendly.

For my discussion post, I choose the poem “My Son the Man”, composed by author Sharon Olds. In the poem the mother is reflecting on her son’s life. I believe that author Olds is having a difficult time coping with the fact, that her son is no longer “mommy’s little boy” anymore. Through this difficult time, she is reflecting on the physically changes and “mommy moments” that her and her son went through together. I can personally compare myself with this poem, with my mother and I. The statement “we have no control over time”, comes into play when dealing with moments in our life that fly by. Throughout my life, my mother and I have always shared a very close relationship with one another. About two years ago, we have become closer than ever.

Homoeroticism and Defiance of Victorian Values in Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Oscar Wilde once satirically said, "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. " Rather than hold the same opinions as those in good Victorian society, he boldly challenges them. Oscar Wilde parallels the relationships of Shakespeare, Michelangelo and other revered historical intellectuals with his relationship to Lord Alfred Douglas in his work, The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and during his criminal trial. Through these parallels, Wilde attempts to normalize and justify his homosexuality in a time of rampant homophobia, forcing the examination of self-expression, through writing and speech, as a tool of defiance.

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Fear of dad: In order to get rid of the Kevin’s crying and constant fear towards his father I will use to things that instill an opposite reaction in Kevin. My plan start’s off by getting semi blurred pictures of Kevin’s father to be put in a place Kevin enjoys, like a play room. After a while Kevin will start to associate his father’s face figure with play time. This then will make Kevin no longer have the urge to cry immediately when he sees his father. The second step of the plan consists of spraying Kevin’s father’s cologne on his stuff animals that comfort him. Day by day another stuff animal will be sprayed and Kevin will have a sense of comfort immediately around his father. These two elements should eliminate Kevin’s fear so it’s no