last fun home

After finishing Fun Home, and looking back on it compared to the other books we have read thus far into the semester, I had the strongest connection to this book than to any of the others. The connection was not so much through the plot but more in the style that Bechdel chose to use for her autobiography, the use of a graphic novel. For me this was an easier way to understand her life through not only her words, but she also uses her own hand drawn illustrations in every page so that the reader does not only read what she went through but can also have a snapshot of her own memories.

I suppose it is something that not all people can enjoy considering that at first it ma be difficult for some to get used to the quick captions followed by four or five drawings per page attached with dialog. But having some background in reading graphic novels I knew how the book would flow and was able to read it very quickly. But since this was her autobiography, she was recreating her childhood and trying to piece it together in a way that corresponded with different themes of the book and now that I can look back into the book and reassess it I have found that the facial expressions of the family members are all very similar in the sense that that none of them had a care in the world. Perhaps this was her intention or perhaps this could be due to the fact that she is trying to relive her own life from so many years ago and her memories have become jaded with different emotions. Even though she did use a diary for a portion of her childhood, I do not feel that she can accurately pinpoint the emotions that she was feeling as a child. I cannot fully remember my own childhood in full making it very difficult for me to buy the emotions that her characters portray.