Alison Bechdel

Some people have the ability to tolerate being false in order to obey specific rules that they might not necessarily understand in order to fit into society. While others have a huge issue with this, causing them to lash out or feel empty inside. Alison Bechdel’s constant struggle between her true self and false…

Ailen Concepcion Lit. 353 Spring 2016 Title In their memoirs, Fun Home and Stitches, authors Alison Bechdel and David Small tell their personal stories about their strange family life and the struggles in a dysfunctional home. Both authors had strained relationships with one of their parent while the other parent was often aloof and distant. Strangely enough, although their stories seem quite similar both authors bring their own style to the table and made the story their own. Their works are…

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…

as a comic book while others see it as a true masterpiece. Because people are unsure whether to classify it as literature or a comic, should it be taught in the classroom? Two well-known graphic novels are Maus by Art Spiegelman and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Maus takes place during World War II and is about Spiegelman interviewing his father who is a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Fun Home is the story of Bechdel’s life and her relationship with her parents, specifically her father. Maus…

Mother” to my journal essay; I did not even realize that I had the chapter title as the novel title: “Alison Bechdel, author of The Ordinary Devoted Mother….” (Difficulty Essay 2). Getting it right in the journal essay, ‘“The Ordinary Mother,” the first chapter of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? could be its own graphic novel,” (Journal Essay 2) led to a much better comprehension of Bechdel and her work. While I am not progressing as fast as I would like, I do think that I have a much…

"Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel is an autobiography expressed in the form of a graphic novel. In this memoir, Bechdel outlines the events that unfold in her childhood and young adult life surrounding her father in what she describes as a 'family tragicomic." Throughout this novel, Bechdel lays a thick foundation of literary references that insinuate themes in her own life. Within this multitude of references, Bechdel develops a scaffolding to better understand and categorize the experiences she…

The texts The End of Remembering by Joshua Foer and “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” by Alison Bechdel, while are stylistically very different, addresses the same themes of the memory and one’s self-identity. Foer, while not as cold or detached as a scientific paper, uses a more formal and traditional tone when compared to Bechdel who approaches these themes through the lens of a graphic novel. The result of this gives two very distinct perspective on how memories affect one’s self identity. Foer’s…

experiences and imagining what the author describes on the pages, the graphic novel allows reader to be placed in scenes with the characters and allow them to experience the emotions of the characters and various components of the author’s identity. In Alison Bechdel’s…

dress. But sometimes the appearance can be fake and blinds our eyes and also misleading us from the reality. The book Fun Home by Alison Brchdel which is a memoir and the article call “Never judge a book by its cover?’: students’ understandings of lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance” by Nikki Hayfield can prove that appearance cannot represent all. Fun Home by Alison Brchdel is mainly focus on a daughter and her father’s complicated relationship and how she growing up in a dysfunctional…

In Fun Home, Alison Bechdel portrays how living in Beech Creek,…