H 8 April 2010 Bechdel Family An ideal family is the one that sacrifices willingly for each other‚ even to suffer for one another. But a family in the most general terms does not necessarily have to meet that requirement. “Friends come and go‚ but family is forever” is a heartwarming adage of a loving supportive family yet another saying‚ “You can pick your friends‚ but you can’t pick your family” may illustrate a more common reality. Alison Bechdel’s comic-memoir Fun Home analyzes family coalescing
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relevant and satire in nature. The underground market allowed for a more open depiction of sexuality and in the 70’s and 80’s openly lesbian and bisexual artists told their stories in comic book form‚ such as Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For and graphic novel Fun Home. Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist who was born in Lock Haven‚ Pennsylvania. She interested in the underground comics and she began to write in this field. She is lesbian feminist artist and her works consist of the feminism
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Fun home‚ what an excellent name to to give a story. without reading the story one will assume that the tale is about a cheerful household where everyone are in unison. Fun home is about a young lady who seems to lose connection with her parents. A young lady who’s name is Alison Bechdel discover that her father who was still marry to her mother was an uncover homosexual . As she was growing up‚ she did not understand the reason she was shown little attention. Alison’s mother pay more attention to
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Concept: Fun Home‚ by Jeanie Tesori and Lisa Kron based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel‚ is strife with discord. Throughout Fun Home‚ we get a glimpse of Alison’s childhood as she understands it in adulthood. We are voyeurs in her relationship with her parents‚ particularly her relationship with her father‚ Bruce Bechdel. As Alison grows‚ we witness the transformation of her relationship with Bruce and how her relationship with her father shapes Alison’s identity. Each of the characters is
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Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home uses visual repetition to produce a Text which plays with its reader and invites its reader to play. Bechdel’s father committed suicide by stepping in front of a Sunbeam Ranch bread truck‚ and throughout the novel Bechdel repeats the Sunbeam Bread logo in moments she wants the reader to interact with‚ to explore more deeply. She invites us‚ with this logo‚ to make connections‚ to move backwards and forwards through the text and pay attention to the use of
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Its is clear that in Alison bechdels tragicomic revolves around complicated themes of sexual identity‚ gender roles‚ and imper********. In ‘Fun Home’ identity is not what it seems‚ which is mostly played by shame‚ fear‚ and uncertainties. With Alison questioning her sexuality‚ to her father feeling of people finding out who he really was. Alison reminisces about her childhood and how her father Bruce gave a dishonest reality to hide a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the
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strength and identity from each other‚ Alison Bechdel is not fortunate to have this kind of supportive and uplifting relationship with her family. Instead of wanting to delve further into learning about her parent’s early lives or stories of how they met‚ she wants to physically and mentally separate herself from them: “I had imagined my confession as an emancipation from my parents‚ but instead I was pulled back into their orbit” (59). In this passage‚ Alison wishes to distance herself from her community
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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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77 of Fun Home‚ Alison Bechdel chronicles her full realization that she is a lesbian in her own “bookish” way. Moving on from the clinical dictionary definition of the word “lesbian” that she discovered in her early adolescence (page 74‚ panel 3)‚ Bechdel turns to works of fiction and chronicles of others’ experiences with homosexuality which she finds in books at her college’s library‚ as opposed to exploring her sexuality on her own in the real world. This is consistent with how Bechdel approaches
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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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