Message: The author wants to indicate, that hunting is negative.

She express
through one of the main characters: Miranda.

At first Miranda likes shooting and pulling the trigger (p.24 l.35).
When her brother killed the rabbit with one shot, she watched
admiringly while her brother stripped the skin away(p.26 l. 26). Her
brother noticed, that the rabbit was going to have young ones and
when he lifted the belly and pulled the bag open, to look at the tiny
rabbits, she wants to see them too,(p.27 l.1). She is exited but not
frightened.(p.27 l.2).

She were thinking about the affair with confused unhappiness( p.27
l. 33).

After 20 years she remembers at the scene and she was horrified.

The affair is described negatively. The message is, that it is never

good to extinguish live, because otherwise you will regret it.