The Reality of Fun Home
Fun Home stuck out to me (compared to the other books we've read) as eerily real. Even though The Bell Jar is an actual recollection of things that have happened, the fact that Alison Bechdel is just telling things as they are (no name changes or anything of the sort), made it so that I could empathize more easily. I read the story as if I were looking into the mind of someone I knew, because I subconsciously realized that this was a real-life story. These characters are real, unchanged, and raw. They once existed, and she is now telling us all about their personal stories. For me, this made it so much sadder, but it also resonated with me more. The fact that nothing about this story was fiction made me reflect and engage more with the novel. I was more interested, and it made me more willing to analyze it. It is literally a passage into the mind of a person. The other way that the reality of the book affected me is in her experiences as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Even thou...