![]() ![]() As the years pass, and Alison ages her father passed away. Bruce isn’t like most fathers, and is viewed by Alison as very unaffectionate to his children, extremely distant, and sees his children more as laborers rather than as his children. His two occupations, death and literature, is what the focus of the whole graphic memoir truly attract. Bruce is a high school literature teacher, as well as, a funeral director at a funeral home named Fun Home, hence the title of the book. ![]() In the novel, she gives us an in depth understanding of her relationship with her father, beginning with the awkwardness and unaffectionate feelings she always felt until the death of her father, at which point her feelings began to change. However, with a graphic memoir we were able to get a whole new understanding of the relationship between Alison and her father, not only textually, but visually too. If this novel were just a regular memoir, I probably wouldn’t be reading it right now since there are so many options to choose from. In today’s day and age the graphic memoir genre is not very common, but with such a personal story, such as, Fun Home, no genre could have fit better. The book is centered on the relationship between her father Bruce and her, and she does this by using text and images. Alison Bedchel’s graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic chronicles her childhood years, before and after her father died. ![]()
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