INTRO: Hook: Alison Bechdel may not be widely recognized… introduce the uniqueness.. Thesis:
1: Argue for or against effectiveness of this book: regarding purpose. The work is a black and white representation of her coming to a realization of her own homosexuality and a complex relationship with her father. However, Bechdel offers a graphic narrative…
2: presentation Comic can be used as an adjective which has the meaning of “funny,” or as pertaining to comedians, which can cause confusion and readers usually steer clear of such comic books for the most part. Highlights the maturity, non-comedic content, as well as emphasizes the hybrid nature of the medium. Sequential art. Graphic novel, which is used to indicate this book in the form …show more content…
To start off, the title of the graphic novel, Fun Home, is portrayed as an environment where people live usually accompanied by sweet memories of growing up, having fun, enjoying every moment of their childhood. However, Bechdel uses the word “fun,” short for “funeral,” to refer to Bechdel’s funeral home business, which is her grandfather’s (Bruce’s father, which is her father’s dads’) family business. In Chapter 3: “That Old Catastrophe,” the image of what seems like a dictionary takes up about half the page with certain words being highlighted. Bechdel uses the word “queer” to describe her father’s death in the following sentence: “My father’s death was a queer business – queer in every sense of that multi-valent word” (Bechdel 57). She expresses her father as being queer as an adjective, verb, and a noun. A combine form of meanings such as strange, suspicious, to put (one) in a bad position, and counterfeit are used to express the ways in which her father was a “queer” as well as including a visual. Her father’s death was suspicious, the character her father played in her life was strange, all the events leading up to her adulthood fait and ruined the relationship between her, her father, and
1: Argue for or against effectiveness of this book: regarding purpose. The work is a black and white representation of her coming to a realization of her own homosexuality and a complex relationship with her father. However, Bechdel offers a graphic narrative…
2: presentation Comic can be used as an adjective which has the meaning of “funny,” or as pertaining to comedians, which can cause confusion and readers usually steer clear of such comic books for the most part. Highlights the maturity, non-comedic content, as well as emphasizes the hybrid nature of the medium. Sequential art. Graphic novel, which is used to indicate this book in the form …show more content…
To start off, the title of the graphic novel, Fun Home, is portrayed as an environment where people live usually accompanied by sweet memories of growing up, having fun, enjoying every moment of their childhood. However, Bechdel uses the word “fun,” short for “funeral,” to refer to Bechdel’s funeral home business, which is her grandfather’s (Bruce’s father, which is her father’s dads’) family business. In Chapter 3: “That Old Catastrophe,” the image of what seems like a dictionary takes up about half the page with certain words being highlighted. Bechdel uses the word “queer” to describe her father’s death in the following sentence: “My father’s death was a queer business – queer in every sense of that multi-valent word” (Bechdel 57). She expresses her father as being queer as an adjective, verb, and a noun. A combine form of meanings such as strange, suspicious, to put (one) in a bad position, and counterfeit are used to express the ways in which her father was a “queer” as well as including a visual. Her father’s death was suspicious, the character her father played in her life was strange, all the events leading up to her adulthood fait and ruined the relationship between her, her father, and