Project 1- Reading and Writing and Bechdel:
When thinking about the way we read and write as individual’s, we often do not think of someone reading or writing a comic book, we often jump right to the conclusion of a person reading or writing something along the lines of a novel. Bechdel did just that, in creating her comic book “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” she wrote and read in a comic book style. She developed reading and writing as a recurring theme in the duration of her piece. Throughout the duration of this essay, what reading and writing essentially does, where reading and writing comes from and what the purpose of reading and writing is, will be further discussed.
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Writing is a way for someone to express their emotions on how they are feeling, it can provide someone with a safe place to keep their thoughts, or just a way to express themselves. This explanation of what writing does is seen throughout Bechdel’s piece “The Ordinary Devoted Mother”, for example, in the piece Alison says she has already written a whole other journal on her father and both of their relationships with their mother. This is Alison’s way of expressing her feelings towards her biological parents and providing her with a way to cope with what happened between her parents when she was a child, and the grief that it caused her. Another example of writing being a way for someone to express themselves is with her mother. For example, in the piece Alison says, “My mother logs her daily activities in her journal” (Page 84). Although her mother does not express any emotions throughout her journal, she logs her everyday activities, this is another way of expressing herself as she can look back and reflect on the things she has done throughout her life, which relates to the next topic and where it comes …show more content…
Some may argue that this is the best way to write. Without this type of writing everyone would all write about the exact same topics. There would be less creativity and individuality in the world. In the Bechdel’s piece “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” shows just that, she wrote about her father and how she felt about him, she was honest and wrote about how she felt from the heart, for example Alison says, “I can’t make things up, or, rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened” (Page 100). This quote explains just that, everything she writes about is honest and have occurred in past events, she will not make up anything that is not true, or, from the heart. That would be fiction writing, which is not the purpose of her own
When thinking about the way we read and write as individual’s, we often do not think of someone reading or writing a comic book, we often jump right to the conclusion of a person reading or writing something along the lines of a novel. Bechdel did just that, in creating her comic book “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” she wrote and read in a comic book style. She developed reading and writing as a recurring theme in the duration of her piece. Throughout the duration of this essay, what reading and writing essentially does, where reading and writing comes from and what the purpose of reading and writing is, will be further discussed.
Reading and writing are more than just words that are put down onto …show more content…
Writing is a way for someone to express their emotions on how they are feeling, it can provide someone with a safe place to keep their thoughts, or just a way to express themselves. This explanation of what writing does is seen throughout Bechdel’s piece “The Ordinary Devoted Mother”, for example, in the piece Alison says she has already written a whole other journal on her father and both of their relationships with their mother. This is Alison’s way of expressing her feelings towards her biological parents and providing her with a way to cope with what happened between her parents when she was a child, and the grief that it caused her. Another example of writing being a way for someone to express themselves is with her mother. For example, in the piece Alison says, “My mother logs her daily activities in her journal” (Page 84). Although her mother does not express any emotions throughout her journal, she logs her everyday activities, this is another way of expressing herself as she can look back and reflect on the things she has done throughout her life, which relates to the next topic and where it comes …show more content…
Some may argue that this is the best way to write. Without this type of writing everyone would all write about the exact same topics. There would be less creativity and individuality in the world. In the Bechdel’s piece “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” shows just that, she wrote about her father and how she felt about him, she was honest and wrote about how she felt from the heart, for example Alison says, “I can’t make things up, or, rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened” (Page 100). This quote explains just that, everything she writes about is honest and have occurred in past events, she will not make up anything that is not true, or, from the heart. That would be fiction writing, which is not the purpose of her own