Analysis for "Shooting Dad"

 Throughout the essay, Vowell uses the element "plot" to show how the story is. The narrator states that he isn't like his family. His dad is a NRA man, someone who takes pride in the 2nd amendment and expresses it frequently.  She shows how the narrator distances himself from his family staying away from the things that they do because he doesn't have the same interests as them. Because of that his sister (also his twin) states this " I am the loneliest twin in the world". This shows how the sister doesn't acknowledge the fact that she is his twin just because he doesn't want to go on family hunting outings, or things of that nature. Just because he doesn't express himself the way they do, they kind of shut him out, and he does the same. Now he doesn't hate his family he just doesn't believe the same stuff they do. Like how he is believes in democracy being a democrat and all he expresses this by putting a picture of Walter Mondale and Gerraldine Ferraro on the refrigerator, then his father takes it down and throws it in the trash, all because he is a republican. The narrators family really don't give him a chance to express himself freely while they do whatever they want. They just don't seem to find the time to learn what their son likes. As the story goes on the father