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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Rachael Woodard Woodard 1 Dr. Jackson Essay #3 December 3‚ 2012 Fun Home In Chapter Four‚ recreations of photographs from the author’s and her father’s pasts are emphasized. Why does Bechdel push these images so strongly in this section? Bechdel emphasizes these photographs so much in this chapter because they are the missing pieces to the puzzle in a sense. To specify‚ the missing pieces are the explanation for the trips they took‚ the nights her dad came in late‚ the arguments her
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About the book: Alison Bechdel’s father Bruce was a high school English teacher‚ a funeral home operator‚ and a man who worked tirelessly to restore his Victorian-era home to its original glory. He was a husband and father of three children. On the outside‚ the Bechdels were a functional nuclear family. However‚ soon after Bechdel came out to her parents‚ she learned her father was also gay and that he had sexual relationships with his students. Months after her announcement‚ her mother filed
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Alison’s Odyssey In Bechdel’s‚ Fun Home‚ the Odyssey functions as a transitional object for Alison‚ who is undergoing a challenging journey of self-realization. Throughout her memoir she explains how she goes through her own odyssey. She makes many self-discoveries but it is not until she is older that she recognizes that she is in fact a lesbian. Amid her journey she alludes to characters and settings from the epic poem. “One Siren led to another in an intertextual progression.”(207) just like
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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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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is an autobiography written by Alison Bechdel. The graphic novel takes its readers through Alison Bechdel’s childhood using engaging diction and detailed drawings. One of the biggest themes of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is the discovery of one’s sexual orientation. Over the course of her life‚ Alison Bechdel eventually comes to the realization that she is a lesbian. Interestingly‚ Alison Bechdel uses this novel to recount her experience of events that helped to shape
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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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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic‚ a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel. The autobiography focuses on self-identity by discovering the memories of the past. Bechdel combines texts and images‚ especially the presence of her father in her life‚ as the way to develop her own identity. The process of relating and understanding her own life to her fathers’ can be examined through the strategic use of the different contexts in her life. As Alison grows‚ she continually develops her sexual identity. Bechdel paints
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Tiana Hyatt Professor Apostolidis May 6 2014 The Bechdel test was created in 1985‚ this test is a device used to demonstrate if at least two named women in a film‚ talk to each other‚ but what they talk about is something other than a man. My initial thought was this should be an easy enough test for a movie or TV Show to pass. I thought I would just choose the last threes movies I have seen lately but instead I decided to make a small experiment out of it. Being that there are three
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Passing the Bechdel-Wallace Test In today’s popular culture there are fewer TV shows and movies that feature multiple women in a non-stereotypical character role than most people would think. The Bechdel-Wallace test was created with three requirements to determine the role of woman in film‚ television‚ books‚ etc. In order to pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test‚ there has to be at least two named women who talk to each other about something besides a man. Not many television shows in popular culture
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