A Long Way Gone Stylistic Analysis

I could see in the book that it is obvious that her dad Bruce does not have a close relationship with his children, but I felt he wanted to be closer to Alison. I felt like this because as the reader I could clearly tell he would buy her pretty dresses or jewelry that he would have liked. Bruce portrayed that he would have liked to be a woman perhaps this was a way he could buy what he wanted without being judged for it, and see Alison in a sense as himself. As I read through the book I felt Bruce was always trying to live vicariously through Alison. When she found the picture of her father dressed as a woman in a swimsuit I felt like, things actually made sense.

2. What do you personally think about the comic book/graphic novel for at for a queer autobiography? Does it work for you as a reader? Why or why not?

I felt personally that I enjoyed reading the story and it being comic book form helps to really imagine what is going on …show more content…
What methods does Bechdel use to interrogate the past, and why? For example, her close examination of the photo of Roy on pages 100-101 The methods that Bechdel uses to interrogate the past are when she is examining the photo Alison, remembers the trip to the jersey shore. Roy had come with her and her brothers, and father. She says “I remember the hotel room. My brothers and I slept in one adjoining to it” (Bechdel,100). Which when she remembered this, is when I felt like she started really wondering what her father had been up to all this time. Another thing she points out is she’s not exactly sure on what to refer to Roy as, “The subject is clearly our yardwork assistant/baby sitter, Roy” (Bechdel,100). I find that to be highly interesting was he all of those or a secret boyfriend of her fathers the whole time as she says “my father juggled his public appearance and private reality” (Bechdel,101). She does of course later on find out that indeed Bruce and Roy had some kind of