different form comic books and comic strips because even though it looks similar, it is different in the fact that this graphic novel is based on true events. Who is Alison Bechdel? Is she the author? Is she the main character? The answer is yes, Alison Bechdel is both author and main character in her own graphic novel Fun Home. “Fun Home was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, and in a great moment for graphic narrative, was named Best Book of 2006 by Time Magazine. Time called the tightly
Daniel Bonsanti 11-13-17 IHRTLUHC Bechdel’s father and his influence Alison Bechdel uses her graphic memoir, Fun home, to explore her relationship with her father. She uses the book as a tool to reflect on her life and the affect her father had on her. She discovers how her fathers closeted sexuality affected her childhood and her transition into adulthood. His death left a powerful mark and left her searching for answers. She clearly states this when she says, “it’s true that he didn’t kill
and Acceptance in Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” In the first chapter of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, a graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, the author uses an intriguing combination of pictures and words to draw her readers through the story with many surprising twists and turns similar to the way a carnival fun house lures in curious adventurers . As the author first introduces her father to the story, one would believe him to be a loving and engaging father. However, once Bechdel begins comparing their
college classes-why do you think that is? Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is
The tragicomic Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is generally considered one of the most important pieces of the modern LGBTQ canon of literature. The graphic novel tells the story of Alison Bechdel’s attempt to find the truth about her father’s sexuality and what lead him to possibly commit suicide. Along the way, Bechdel finds her own sexuality. Bechdel’s choice to write about her and her father’s simultaneous journey to finding their sexuality was revolutionary at the time. Very few authors were writing
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel, is a memoir dealing with how a father can live a normal life with his family despite being mentally unstable. Bechdel believes that her father was in her life but “his absence resonated retrospectively, echoing back through all the years…” (23). The memoir is told through a graphic novel to show readers that a person can look and act and be normal on the outside, but be suffering on the inside. Bechdel’s father wasn’t necessarily unstable his entire
The memoir “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” by Alison Bechdel reminds me more of a fictional rather than “real” graphic memoir. Bruce, Alison’s dad seems like he is escaping from the world rather than in the reality due to his hidden identity, being homosexual. During Bruce’s time period, homosexuality was not acceptable. By secluding himself to the outside world, including his family was his only escape. Moreover, Alison chooses to combine the world around her with the world that she thinks that
In Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Bechdel uses the theme of appearance versus reality to highlight her relationship with her father. Bechdel utilizes her illustrations and short sentences to reveal these things about herself and her father. Bechdel opens her memoir with a chapter entitled “Old Father, Old Artificer”. Bechdel refers to her father, Bruce Bechdel, as an artificer because she sees him as a skilled craftsman. Bechdel describes, “His greatest achievement, arguably, was his monomaniacal
Bruce runs a funeral home and restores his families old victorian home as a personal hobby and passion. Behind the “perfect” family facade you will find that Bruce is a deeply troubled man. He struggled as an adolescent with his sexual identity and carried the anger and frustration this caused into
such as Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic written by Alison Bechdel has been the center of a censorship debate by many parents and students to remove the book from classrooms and libraries due to its message and images; which some consider sexually graphic or obscene. There are many qualities that make this book a great read. Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home should not be censored or challenge because it is a great book to read and be shared. Time Magazine Best Book of 2006, Fun Home: A Family
the memoir, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel effectively depicted her life as a child all the way up to age nineteen when she finally decided to come out to her family. Growing up Alison’s path crossed paths with struggles that try to hinder her while she attempts to grasp on to the identity of being homosexual. Even though Bechdel encounter struggles she is able to overcome those struggles in a supportive environment. Despite her father, Bruce Bechdel homosexuality, which was unknown to Alison for the majority
Media Analysis on Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: Whiteness and White Privilege The novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is about the Bechdel family, and the struggles that they endured during their lifetime. The Bechdel family lived in a town in Pennsylvania and directed a funeral home business. Alison’s father Bruce was having sexual relationships with men and boys, the mother Helen, was fully aware of Bruce’s adulterous actions. Alison discovered at an early age that she wanted to
son is very prevalent in Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, Fun Home. Bechdel’s relationship with her father has various parallels to this myth, but who plays which role? Bechdel distorts the Icarus-Daedalus myth to illuminate her views on the role reversal within her growing relationship with her father. In the first two pages of Fun Home, Bechdel associates her father most with Daedalus. Besides his Daedalus-like action of launching her into the sky on his legs, Alison describes him as a master
Alison Bechdel’s tragicomic titled Fun Home which is a memoir of her experience in adolescence and maturity into a young woman. Bechdel’s use of mythology throughout her tragicomic allows for a more enhanced metaphor of the two-sided nature that is presented through her father, herself, and their home. The use of myth addresses some modern dualities within the characters but looking at the form of religion Bechdel’s father can be depicted as a Christ figure early In the comic and this perhaps is
Alison Bechdel 's "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" is an exciting autobiography with comics that bring her story to life. Alison Bechdel wrote this book about her childhood, the relationship she had with her father and one of the many things they shared in common, their sexuality. In addition to their common homosexuality, Alison and Bruce Bechdel share o b sessive compulsive tendencies and their artistic ways, even using her artistic language to describe the father daughter relationship they had
The graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was written by Alison Bechdel. The book is an autobiography about Alison Bechdel’s childhood. Throughout the book, Bechdel recounts her journey as she goes through adolescent life, struggling to understand her own identity and the identity of those close to her. Bechdel and her family would often use various artistic endeavors to express themselves instead of communication. Ultimately, this novel is about the unbearable isolation one can experience
Anguish and Pain In the graphic novel Fun Home, by Allison Bechdel, sexual self-discovery plays a critical role in the development of the main character, Allison Bechdel herself; furthermore, Bechdel depicts the plethora of factors that are pivotal in the shaping of who she is before, during and after her sexual self-development. Bechdel’s anguish and pain begins with all of her accounts that she encountered at home, with her respective family member – most importantly her father – at school, and
supported as Alison is in Fun Home. Fun Home written by Alison Bechdel is a tragicomic about the main character Alison and her dysfunctional family living in a “Fun Home.” Whereas hiding one’s sexuality is lying, embracing sexuality makes one a better person given that Alison was accepted when she “came out,” while her father kept it a secret and was not the ideal father for it. In Fun Home, Alison attends Simon’s Rock Early College so she does not know what is going on back at home with her father
Close Reading of Fun Home Fun Home by Alison Bechdel shows us her discovery of her own and her father's homosexuality. This graphic memoir touches on things like homosexuality, family relationships, and suicide. What’s unique about this autobiographical story is that Bechtel used the graphic novel medium to tell her story. When we close read pages fourteen through seventeen in Fun Home we can understand how a Bechdel employs words and graphic devices to allow for specific events. One can also see
In Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel entitled Fun Home, the author expresses her life in a comical manner where she explains the relationship between her and her family, pointedly her father who acts as a father figure to the family as she undergoes her exhaustive search for sexuality. Furthermore, the story describes the relationship between a daughter and a father with inversed gender roles as sexuality is questioned. Throughout the novel, the author suggests that one’s identity is impacted by their