“Shooting Dad” Dialogue

What is the significance of the title? “Shooting Dad”

In this story I feel as though there are a couple different reasons why the title is what it is. This story is written by a young girl whose passion is art. While her father repairs and builds guns for a living being a gunsmith. Her father always tried to share his passion with his two daughters but only one shared his passion which was the author’s twin sister. While her sister loved to shoot guns, the author has only shot a gun once and that was at age SIX...When her father thought it was time to show the girls how to shoot. He thought as it of trusting them and now thought of them as “big girls.” Her father thinking this, she remembered the experience had only made her feel small, she even said “…it kicked little me back to the ground like a bully, like a foe.” So there is one reason why I think the title is named “shooting dad” it refers to her father and his passion for life.
Later in her years realizing that they will never come to an agreement about their different passions. She decided that she would try to start being a better daughter. She never really understood the reason or what it was about shooting and guns that her dad saw. She decided to spend a little bit of time with her father doing something he liked to do. Her father’s most recent tool that he has been working on for two years was nineteenth-century cannon. This was his biggest project ever because it had a lot to do with his history. The cannon was pretty small as long as a baseball bat and as wide as a coffee can. It was pretty heavy weighing about 110 pounds. She thought that this would be the perfect time to support her dad in something he cared about so much and not even participate in the project. She called him up and told him that she wanted to go with him and as no surprise he thought she was just messing with him. And later that day they were headed to Montana to the Bridger Mountains to shoot off his cannon.
The first Explosion went off and she couldn’t believe it she thought it was really cool. She right away ran to get her tape recorder and helped her father out in her own special way. That whole time they were bonding she was noticing little things about her father where they are so similar and she really liked it. At the end of the story her father explains to his family that when he dies he wants to be cremated and for his family to shoot his ashes from the cannon off the mountain on the opening day of hunting season, and that will be his final goodbye! So right there I think is a very important part where you can tell why the title is called “Shooting Dad.”