"Shooting Dad" analysis

In Sarah Vowell's memoir she tells of how her father and herself are completely different.  She uses many examples, for instance, she implies that her father is a republican and she is the democrat.  Vowell opposes guns while her father is gun obsessed.  She thinks of herself as artistic and unique, while her father is simple minded and stubborn.  In one instant her father said to her mother after he mother scolded him for shooting the gun her father claimed "Why, shooting crows is a national pastime, like baseball and apple pie."  This showed that he was content on shooting his gun when he pleased.  This whole ordeal has made the author very conscious on how different she was from the family, where her own twin sister was into guns. What the author realizes in the end is that her father and herself are very similar.  After she finally accepted her father's fetish for guns, she finally convinced herself to go see this new cannon in action.  This is when she saw that her father,as well, is artistic in his craftmanship.  As different as they may have seemed, they were very much the same at heart.