In the book Take the Cannoli, there isnt anything I dislike or disagree with Sarah Vowell. I like the fact that she's different from her family especially her twin sister Amy. Also I like the fact that Sarah doesnt try to change just to fit in with the cool kids or pretend to be something she's not. Sarah knows shes the outcast in her family and also at school, and she's okay with that. Sarah throws herself into her interests of reading and taking music lessons.
Sarah's father Pat Vowell, I think could tend to interact with her more. Sarah and her father are total opposites, but she tries to bond with him even with the distance in their relationship. Amy feels like the loneliest twin, I feel that Sarah her sister could actually come together to find something they both have in common to enhance their sisterhood.
Overall, Sarah would have loved the conncection her family could have had. As Sarah gets older, she understands that in the little things her parents did actually showed their love. Such as Sarah's father making pencil markings of his rolled up program to Sarah's perfomance. Yeah at first she took it badly, but as she got older she realized those pathetic lmarkings were heart-shaped symbols of his love. She also realized that the her father's suffering was for her sake and parental love required a heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm.
I love the fact that Sarah and Amy's parents were hell-bent on letting them make their own decisions. I feel that allowing everyone to make their own choices allows them to understand the maturity of ownership.
The only regret I have in life is that I wish I would have taken high school more serious. I wish someone would have really sat me down and screamed in my ears "own up to becoming an adult, take this step towards your future serious." But I realized later in life that not to think of it as a regret but theres a timing for everything and everything happens for a reason. From that I matured and understood the meaning of the word adult, which I yearned to become.
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