he had sexual relationships with his students. Months after her announcement‚ her mother filed for divorce – and two weeks after that‚ her father got run over by a truck. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Bechdel thinks it was the latter‚ and in Fun Home‚ she analyzes her memories‚ books‚ and family letters in an attempt to understand who Bruce was and why he chose a life that dissatisfied him so deeply. What I liked: Bechdel’s analysis of her and her father’s lives‚ and her ability to wed
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Samantha Trost Structural Analysis Professor Drolet 10/30/12 Fun Home Alison Bechdel‚ who is best known for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For wrote the autobiographical comic‚ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic‚ with one of the most intelligent and insightful autobiographical comics. Her graphics avoids the normal confessional‚ self-obsessed nature of much autobiography by focusing not just on Alison herself but on her and her father’s complicated relationship. The subtitle’s “Tragicomic” also
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In‚ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel‚ the relationship between Alison and her father‚ Bruce Bechdel‚ is something Bechdel made stand out right from the beginning of the graphic novel. Right on the first two pages‚ Bechdel brings up the Greek character Icarus. She relates Icarus to her father. Throughout the graphic novel‚ the relationship between Alison and Bruce fluctuate. Understanding the term character‚ In the story of Icarus‚ Icarus’s father‚ Daedalus‚ made a pair of wax
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In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic‚ Bechdel’s writing‚ specifically the ethical considerations (and sometimes lack thereof) taken when portraying characters‚ shape the text in ways that suggest separation between Bechdel as a narrator and Bechdel as a character in her own story. Although the character that Bechdel describes seems to falsify the past at times‚ Bechdel as a narrator retains the reader’s trust by showing her character’s obvious flaw in memory through her perspective as a child‚ coupled
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Final Draft During the summer break‚ my favorite place to visit is the beach. There are many things that make me want to return every year. My family likes to go to the beach for vacation. It is warm and sunny with blue skies and sandy beaches. My favorite thing to do at the beach is to swim. I love the ocean and the swimming pool in the hotel. I also enjoy the hot tub. Swimming is fun and relaxing. It is great to play in the water. My second favorite thing to do is I also like
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“Fun with Dick and Jane” (2005) Starring: Jim Carrey‚ Tea Leoni‚ and Alec Baldwin In need of some light hearted entertainment and a good laugh‚ I chose the movie “Fun with Dick and Jane” for this assignment. “Fun with Dick and Jane” asks the common question‚ “What is the difference between a corporate crook and a bank robber?” The movie opens with Dick leaving his home in the picture perfect neighborhood in the year 2000. Dick is married to Jane and they have a son who is more or less being
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My favorite season is summer. I like the other seasons as well‚ but summer is the best for me. First of all‚ I like summer because the weather is hot. Some people think that summer is too hot‚ but I just love it as it is. The sky is always blue and it hardly ever rains‚ and if it does‚ it is a warm and pleasant rain. I usually enjoy walking in the rain because it relaxes me. I like spending the long summer days out and sometimes even the short and warm nights. I like this season very much because
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“Summer Is My Favorite Season of the Year” My favorite season of the year is summer because of the warm weather‚ the school vacation‚ and the endless fun. I really enjoy the warm weather because it’s the perfect atmosphere to do outdoor activities. My favorite part about summer has to be the fact that school is closed for two months. During summer‚ you’re free to do whatever you want‚ not worrying about curfew or waking up early for school. Summer time is a great time to relax with friends and
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author as a character who interacts with the story as according to the limits of their memory. The graphic memoir‚ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic‚ occupies the same literary space in the sense that it is an investigation of one’s childhood to the effect of expressing an idea‚ thought‚ or feeling.
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Summer Vacation I have a great summer. At first month I went to summer school for Grade 10 History‚ even though it was super busy but I still having a great time with my teacher and classmates. At the second month‚ my parents decided take me and my younger sister for a driving vacation where headed for Canada’s biggest water park. This water park is locate at Alberta‚ so we decided to travel through all the western Canada. After about 13 days travel in Canada‚ we flew to Miami with another
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