Respond to DeAustin and Julia

Response to DeAustin:

I’m reading Take the Cannoli, in this book a little later within the book we find out that Sarah is an atheist. I don’t think there is anything wrong with her being an atheist that is a personal opinion that she has made for her life, but I am a Christian and I whole heartedly believe in God. She described what made her become an atheist and she explained all the cons of believing in God. To an extent to me it felt like she was bashing the whole Christian religion for the things that God did. She mocked that fact that God let his son hang from the cross with nails in his hands and feet. She made it seem like he wasn’t doing it for the better good while I believe he was. I know that God gave his son to the world to forgive all the children of God of the sins we have committed – but again, that’s just my opinion. She says that the bible made her become an atheist because she felt that her fear of God and all the things he could do were scary and made her become a “worrywart” about the things that she did.

I think everyone regrets something in their life. They may not always admit it but there’s that one little thing that pops in someone head when the word regret comes around. When I hear regret I think of not cherishing my grandmother more while she was here on Earth. She was such a loving person (what I heard from my momma) but I never got to experience her loving hands because I was a silly child who had “better things to do with his time then visit his grandma.” That’s something I will have to let go one day but todays just not that day.

Response to Julia:

The supporting character that I look to the most in resemblance to anyone I know would have to be Pat Vowell (Sarah’s Dad). He reminds me of my grandfather. The way that he impacts this story is with his masculinity. In my book Take the Cannoli, Sarah starts to compare God to her father because she believes that God is a person that “huffed and puffed around the Cosmos” when he gets angry like her father does. Pat is a loving father, he would do anything for his family but no one really realizes it. He’s a genuine person enjoys to hunt. He shakes this story because he brings everyone together. His family was never a “whole.” They were 75% there and they were missing the other 25%. That 25% was Sarah because she wasn’t like everyone else but her father kept trying to get her to come around and be a part of the family and in the end that happened for the Vowell’s.

My dad would have to be the person that made an impact on my life. I was raised in a single mother household and that’s never how any child should be raised. It puts a wear and tear down on the child as if they are the reason the other parent isn’t around. His impact made an imprint on my life. I realized that I will never leave something that I created (my child) to be raised by just one of its parents. It shouldn’t matter if you aren’t together with the mother or father no child deserves that. So he made me want to be a better father to my child and I know I will be.