Reading Response 8
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home chapters 1-3
Choose one of the prompts below. Please use specific evidence in your response.
- On page 15, Bechdel illustrates some of the ways she and her father are different. Despite the differences, how are she and her father similar? Consider characteristics of behavior and/or appearance.
- What elements contribute to Bechdel believing that her father's death was a suicide? Do you agree that these elements warrant her conclusion?
- Compare and/or contrast how Alison Bechdel's father uses books in his life to how Bechdel as a young college student does. How do books relate to their identities? To their sexual identities?
- What assets does Alison Bechdel have that help support her coming out as a lesbian? What are her obstacles?
- Choose a scene from the book and compare the narration with the monstration. What relationship do these share? In other words, what do the images show in comparison to what the words explain and how do the two work together in the scene to create meaning? Consider using McCloud.
- Choose your own focus for analysis.
2 comments:
I understand that we are to refer to authors by their last name and why, but when we write our responses/papers may we use "Alison" when describing Bechdel specifically as a character in her book? Or would you still like us to refer to her as "Bechdel" ?
Exactly. Basically, when you are referring to her as a character then you can call her Alison. Yet if you are referring to her as the author, call her Bechdel. This is what I've seen academics do who write about Fun Home.
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