Fun Home Alison Bechdel Essay

to do with dresses and entertaining, appears time and time again as the social “norm”. Members of our society use these “traditional” characteristics of gender, as an integral factor in assuming a persons sexual orientation. Alison Bechdel, in her graphic memoir Fun Home A Family Tragicomic, uses these same conventions to her advantage, yet reverses the roles society have given gender, giving the male characters more “feminine” qualities, and the women

I argue that the author of Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, intentionally ruses the reader to believe, or even further disbelieve, her suspicion that her father killed himself. The purpose she does this is not important for this essay, but I would contend it is to create discussion among critical thinkers. I would like to point out now, I do not intend to argue that she is fabricating the entirety of her father’s or anyone’s personality, or the events that took place. As far as my essay is concerned, she

“Mon Dieu,” I murmured, glancing at “the sassy, burping cow” that gawked brainlessly from the cover of Home On the Range; its reverse had the words, “Round up the family and get ready for a whole lotta fun with Disney’s hilarious animated comedy Home on the Range,” (Roper). Unfortunately, Disneytends to exaggerate ever so slightly in marketing their products. Competitors— DreamWorks, Blue Sky, and Laika— usually promote film mediocrity under the all-encompassing banner of “the family film.” But animation

There are different ways that having one or more LGBTQ parent affects a person. It manifests through the type of home they have, their class, their gender, their sexual orientation and their physical body. Often times it manifests itself through exclusion from different communities, whether they are queer communities or communities for specific races, existing in between the lines is just the normal way of life. One of the main confusions around LGBTQ families is how they physically have a baby.

The Complex Home Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, is a graphic memoir written and illustrated with an elaborate process by Allison Bechdel. It depicts Allison’s childhood and understanding her sexual identity. As she is figuring out her own, she experiences a complex relationship with her father, who struggles with his own sexual identity but in a separate way. By incorporating themes such as sexual orientation, community, and communication, Allison created a story about understanding herself and her

Every person has to deal with some sort of conflict during their life. For some, their problem is external. Others face an internal struggle that they try to deal with by themselves. Few people deal with both simultaneously, especially to such a high degree. The Alcoholic written by Jonathan Ames and Illustrated by Dean Haspiel revolves around Jonathan, a man living in New York that has an addiction to both alcohol and drugs. During this period of time, the event of September 11th has just occured

“Nuclear Family” is a phrase that is very loaded with imagery. For me, this phrase is very heavily associated with the fifties, a time of pastel hardware, and boys and girls playing on the lawn as mom cooks dinner and waits for dad to come home from the office, imagery that is often reinforced by TV shows and movies set in this time. This picturesque family is so descriptive of modern American families, not just from what it shows, but also from what it leaves out. There’s never any People of Color

cartoonist Alison Bechdel issued to the film industry with her test. She says, “show me a movie with at least two women in it who talk to each other about something besides a man and show me a kids’ movie that has a named mother in it who lives until the credits roll” and although as expected not many movies pass the test, there are still a few exceptions to the rule which often come as a shock to Boxer. She makes the bold statement that “The ineluctable regularity of the dead-mother, fun-father pattern

For as long as human history can tell us, there have always been groups of people that are oppressed by other groups of people. Ancient Romans persecuted the Christians, nazis persecuted the Jewish people, and America did the same with blacks. Since then, America has removed its institutions that oppressed these people. However, until very recently it still had other institutions in place that discriminated against a group of people. One of these institutions was marriage. Until the United States