Fun Home

can share similar motives and emotions, the obvious difference being that characters in memoirs are real and characters in fiction are fake. However, what makes characters in memoirs understood as literary characters? In the graphic novel memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel, uses illustration and simplistic language to develop the characters of her family to the reader, conveying her complex relationship with her father and the struggles of life in a closed minded town. By…

Fun Home: A Literary Comparison Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel is formed by her contradictions and paradox between outward appearance and there meaning. The nature of Fun Home is written as a literary piece rather than an autobiography in which Bechdel recounts her life though other works of literature. Bechdel is able to compare her life to other works of writing by using allusions and symbolisms. Rather than describing her book as an autobiography, Bechdel considers her book a piece of…

As children we are dominated by our uncontrollable desires, we lead a life determined by the id until we are assimilated into the surrounding world. Then this world, the environment surrounding a child, defines the code by which that person will live their life by. The concept of private and open is created, and as the world expands outside of the confines of the routines of an adolescent, the person begins to categorize what is assigned to the interior of their house and what is acceptable for…

her different demons and parts of her Filipino culture. It is like a mixed cocktail because all three authors do not just focus on one aspect of themselves. They bring up many varieties of who they are that creates their identity in their book. Fun Home is one of the best books about the theme of self-identity. Alison Bechdel approaches the theme of identity by sharing different examples throughout of her life. Bechdel mentions the important experiences she had as child, teenager and even…

When you stroll into an amusement park you should notice crowds of people and long lines. You should hear screaming, all the rides and pitchers pitching sales, right? Not in my case. The sun had just risen as we pulled into the empty parking lot with only the sight of the band members unloading from the yellow school bus. It was a very crisp morning so we waited in the warm car until they let us in. We finally were allowed to walk in and listen to eighth grade band perform their melodies. As we…

Through the use of literary allusion and the unique yet complex relationship between a father and daughter, the author of the graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel, was able to capture and represent a father’s internal struggle of identity between the expected society's gender roles and perspectives versus his very own.Within this graphic novel, Alison Bechdel’s father goes through a long struggle with the identity he wants to present on the inside and the identity that…

Fun Home In Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it discusses a wide variety of topics throughout. Fun Home focuses on Alison Bechdel’s family life, the alleged suicide or accidental death of her father, her father’s inability to live the way he wanted to- to even including her coming-out story. The graphic memoir’s focus has to do with Alison’s father's secret life, and his inability to be who he truly wanted to be- and the issues that it caused on not only his life but…

of doing it what she did was ask Al if he can just stop by the grocery store on the way home from…

with a few visits to Home Depot now and then. They did wall paper in the living room, my mother picked bathroom tiles and my father installed it in 3 weeks of time, and my mother picked out a dishwasher to replace an old one and my father read instruction and did it in 1 weekend. So how bad can it be? The partitioning of wall was ok, the place is newly painted. Kitchen looks old and window/drapery is ancient but we can take care of it. A month into occupying our new home, 3rd floor 3 bedroom…

Cleaning your home is often the last thing that comes up in the mind and the schedule of a busy person. No matter how big or small your house is if it’s dirty it looks like it’ll take forever to clean it. When you try to keep up with your professional life, taking care of your kids, cooking for your family and trying to find some extra time to spend with your significant other, somehow the cleaning goes to the bottom of your priorities list. When your house is a mess, you feel less productive…