Fun Home

hobby, something that they find fun and interesting and does not necessarily make them any money. For Mr. Bechdel, one of the main focuses of our novel Fun Home, restoring his family’s eighteen sixty-seven gothic revival mini mansion was more than just a hobby. Through the course of our novel we see Mr. Bechdel turn the common pass time of restoration into an over extenuating obsession that consumes his whole life, Mr. Bechdel beings to view the idea of his perfect home as a synonym for a…

Fun Home is written by Alison Bechel, and it is a graphic memoir recalling her life growing up. The story is focused on the relationship she had with her father and her family, as well as the different situations she went through while she was finding her true self. This was the first graphic novel I have ever read, and I have to say that the different style was fun to read. It was also interesting to see the way Alison compared her life to different works of literature throughout her graphic…

more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to represent. In Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, she sifts through her memories and artifacts from her life -- the evidence -- to “solve the mystery” of her father’s life and ultimately, his death. In Chapter 5, Allison combats her own mini-mystery:…

More Than A House What if a house was more than a home? What if it was treated more importantly than the people in it? Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist, explores this idea in her autobiographical “tragicomic”, Fun Home. Born in the 1960’s, Bechdel was raised in a time where coming out was much harder than it is now. Coming out as gay had the potential detrimental to one’s career, relationships, and all-around life. She writes her memoir about her life, her experience of finding…

The most interesting panel on page 134 of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is the 3rd panel, which consumes more than half the page in its depiction of Bechdel’s childhood gothic revival home. There are several images that are overlaid, which may be described as internal panels. They magnify the individual studies of the family inside, and their solitude is amplified by their silhouetted forms. Despite the fact that the entire family lives under one roof, Bechdel seems to imply that they are only able…

Through the comic books The Shadow Hero and Fun Home, both authors agree that parents try to shape his/her children into the person the parent…

Fun Home is a graphic novel in which the author, Alison Bechdel, portrays a significant part of her life through the use of allusions. Bechdel uses various allusions to literature to analyze and make sense of her memories. The utilization of the literary device throughout the novel creates a strong connection between Bechdel 's life and various literary works. Allusions are used not only to describe the members of the Bechdel family but also to describe the relationships within the household.…

we invest deeper within the book and dig into their relationship, the secret relationship is uncovered. The uniqueness of their relationship lies not within each other but the relationships that they hold with their other family members. In both Fun Home and The Great Gatsby, the two main male characters live parallel lives consisting of a yearning for power, misconception of lifestyle, and a desperate act for love.…

Bechdel is a man that is removed from the world of his family and overly obsessed with his home. According to Alison he never showed much love toward his children. He was too busy constantly working on his fixer-upper of a home. He frequently used his children to help him with the house or as Alison quotes “My brother and I were free labor. Dad considered us extensions of his own body.” This obsession with their home is brought to the reader’s attention as early as the second page when Alison is…

Fun Home is a graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, depicting her fictionalized life as a younger self among her family. Many themes and important passages occurred throughout the text such as, the concept of double identity and how both Alison and Bruce Bechdel, her father, handled their sexuality and expressed it. “I had recently discovered some of Dad 's old clothes. Putting on a formal shirt with its studs and cufflinks was a nearly mystical pleasure, like finding myself fluent in a language I 'd…