Alison

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 himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively

Fun Home a memoir by Alison Bechdel that gives us an in-depth look at her family and her parents, through her eyes as a child and young adult struggling with her sexual identity. Alison’s relationship with her parents, Bruce and Helen, is not a close one and often she struggles to connect with them, and particularly her father whose behavior can be erratic and violent at times. Early in Alison’s memoir we learn that Bruce dies in a tragic accident after Alison and her mother make announcements

In today’s changing world, technology has influenced most everyone. In this new age, many different opinions and controversies have arose. Foreign Affairs, a novel by Alison Lurie, uses fictional characters and events to create ideas, illustrated in the novel, that compel the reader to think about common societal issues and their causes. Foreign Affairs uses characters’ ideas on tourism and places emphasis on societal norms and the characters’ opinions of them as a catalyst to nudge the reader into

All he heard (sound effect: city street) outside was cars, people speaking about their daily lives, and the construction that was happening right outside of the condo. The teenaged boy decided to grab a cup of soothing tea and take a step out to the balcony. He had a newspaper between his arm and chest and on the other hand was his tea. It was hectic and loud for a Friday morning, due to the rush hour, kids finding their way to school, and adults rushing for work, not a single day could be the sweet

The sky had been darkened by thick gray clouds. The brown wooden fences that bordered colorful houses all seemed as if their color had faded away. Small drops of water slipped gracefully off of the delicate leaves to the ground. The whole scene had a certain elegance to it, however mysterious the thin veil of fog made the familiar setting appear. In the midst of it walked a young girl. The scarf she wore around her thin, pale neck stood out quite obviously from the girl’s surroundings. The only

The sky was darkened by thick gray clouds. The brown wooden fences that bordered colorful houses all seemed as if their color had faded away. Small drops of water slipped gracefully off of the delicate leaves to the ground. The whole scene had a certain elegance to it, however mysterious the thin veil of fog made the familiar setting appear. In the midst of it was a young girl. The scarf she wore around her thin, pale neck stood out quite obviously from the girl’s surroundings. The only things

father to Mr. Toad, whom she calls a “charming sociopath” (Bechdel 130). This link between Mr. Toad and Bruce Bechdel is significant in that Wind in the Willows map that follows because of the connection it renders. New meaning is found in the map as Alison draws parallels between the maps of both her home landscape and the setting of the children's novels. The image of Mr. Toad, perhaps still with the thought of Bruce linked to him, speeding towards the edge of the map in still life, also functions

In the article Jane Austen and the Province of Womanhood, Alison Sulloway is illustrating the background of Jane Austen’s life and prompting reasons as to why and how Austen became the type of writer that it was in which she became. In the beginning of the article, Sulloway demonstrates Austen’s advanced style of writing through direct quotations of some of Austen’s most popular works. Some of these works from Austen suggest the type of life she lived, or perhaps was forced to live due the era in

patriarchal society. However, beneath the simplistic plot of women’s empowerment, lies underlying themes of antifeminism in the character, Alison of Bath. Alison endorses the misogynistic role which she is fighting against with the objectification of her own body, her misinterpreted dictations of religion, and her fascination of sovereignty and dominance. Although Alison sees herself as a feminist, it is unlikely that men in the middle ages saw her the same way. She embodies the stereotypes of women in

Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist responsible for the 25-year-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, her two widely acclaimed graphic novels, and the origination for the internationally-known Bechdel Test. In addition to this, she has my boundless love and admiration. Fun Home, her graphic memoir she proclaimed as “a family tragicomic,” spent two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was named Time Magazine’s number one book of the year 2006, and was recently adapted into a Broadway musical