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…
Timmah Ball’s memoir “Still talkin' up to the white woman” explores instances of corporate racism, in particular those perpetrated or instigated by white women, in an experience based examination of white feminism, highlights the need to for intersectionality in modern, corporate feminism. The author begins the piece with an anecdote about the poster of Jean-Léon Gérôme‘s “Moorish Bath” depicting a black slave woman washing the back of an upper class white woman, hanging in her which female…
In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, Rodriguez himself was one of “those Mexicans” which my grandmother chastises. As a child, Rodriguez was incredibly hesitant towards learning English, since it was seen as the language as los gringos, the people who were…
The primary argument that Richard Rodriguez addresses in Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood is the issue of bilingual education in America. He claims that he can’t be fully merged in American Society due to his “private” life, in other words his second language. Rodriguez also claims that because his original language is not the same as the “public” language, he is unable to create intimacy with someone who speaks a different language other than the public one. Lastly, he claims the use of…
They have to return to society to truly complete the full rehabilitation process. In Ishmael Beah’s A long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier he refers to when he had become brainwashed. It’s evident when he says “Our innocence had been replaced by fear and we had become monsters and killing had become as easy as drinking water,” (2007). At another point in the book he…
writers encouraged a more thorough study of individualism including concepts such as gender, class, and race. Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe were two such writers. In 1799 Charles Brockden Brown wrote a novel titled Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker. In Edgar…
In the book “This Boy’s Life: A Memoir”, by Tobias Wolf, the author often illustrates Jack’s coping mechanism to escape the unpleasant parts of his life. Using his coping mechanism of imagination made his life more endurable without the restraints that are placed upon him. In particular, his coping mechanism would involve him using his imagination to imagine where he wants to be in life and how much of a different boy he would be if he grew into a high class family that did not have any problems…
Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…
that were involved in the war in the age of 16 or even younger .During these years children form their vision of the world , so the events like a war, especially if they are involved in it, can change their mentality . An amazing memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier shows how different people impact and help Beah to survive . Beah was a typical young boy who likes listening to the rap music and…
First Amendment gives us many significant freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to assembly, Communist China doesn’t have any of these freedoms if it goes against the People’s Government. In Fan Shen’s book, Gang of One Memoirs of a Red Guard, he had no rights to believe or say anything different from what the government wants. Shen is born and grows in a Chinese Communist family in Red China, and he tries to escape the legal way because if he doesn’t it would…