Take the Cannoli

Michelle orta

Take the cannoli is a book based from various daily events that a young girl experiences with her father throughout her days growing up in a republican loving family, while she stands on the other side of the flag as a democrat. She describes the house divided into section portraying each section as democratic or republican. Although her dad has the urge to have her daughter join him in shooting crows with one of his many rifles, he does not persuade her to join in on the other hand he makes her strive to be whatever she wants to be in life. Both her parents come from very strict backgrounds so the two don't always agree on them setting such a straight home with certain views that they have been made to follow.

Even though she has not grasped the gunsmith way her twin sister on the other hand is daddy’s little John Wayne Jr. when they were six her dad finally decided that they were old enough to go out and shoot a few which she didn’t enjoy very much and that is when the gun hatting and democratic vs. republican arguments started in their lives. The only time she would talk about the guns that her dad owned was when she wanted to grab the attention of a boy. Maybe not even to make them like her but to be of a warning of what he had in store for them if they were not right with her. I think the only time that she and her dad had any bonding experience from anything related to rifles was when her dad made mini cannon.  The experience she had shooting it with her dad was something she never experienced. she couldn’t explain it but she was happy that she finally had something  that she could do with him and not end up in an argument.  In that moment she discovered something that she couldn’t see before, that was that she and her dad where the same person. They both where smart -alecky loners, with goofy projects and weird equipment.

They may be different and they may fight a lot, but the truth is no matter what she decides to be in life her parents and especially her father will support in the decision she makes in the future. Through the time since she was twelve to her last year of high school her parent’s calendar was always full of recitals and concerts.  Her father in the end of every concert she has attended, he would always cross off all the acts that where done. As if he was counting down the numbers to when he can finally go home, she knew better she knew that he didn’t have to be there and go through countless hours of hearing numbers played over and over again, but he tortured himself just for her sake.  I chose this book because I thought that every short story would have a meaning and that I wanted to discover that meaning, I ended up discovering a bond that every father has with their daughter.  The book take the cannoli is very meaningful in what a family should be like. They should support one another and in the end whatever the outcome they should always be there and say its okay.