Personal Identity In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

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In life the forever question we ask ourselves who we are and who do I want to be? Some can live their whole life unknowing the answer to this ongoing question. The graphic memoir Fun Home by Alison Bechdel acknowledges this, by illustrating her own journey on discovering who she is and why. Her identity comes experiences as a young child which are displayed in the book were she is not only the narrator but also the main character. This allows her to use literature as a way to gain closure for the challenges of being yourself especially to your love ones. This acts as the main theme trying to be comfortable with one’s self wile in a community who does not support dissimilar sexual orientations. Today, society teaches us that conformity is the easiest and most successful path to follow not allowing one to not fully express who we are. With the motivation to tell the story of personal identification, Fun Home is fueled through the events at which a young women finds the strength and support to discover who she is and revel it to the world.

The story unfolds as narrative to the relationship her father has with her and the rest …show more content…
This shows two accounts of Alison and her father of society’s effect on one’s self either letting it get the better of yourself or overcoming it. Though it might never answer the question of “who am I?” it does answer “what am I?” that is a human being. Alison Bechdel dealt with the hardships that maybe she could have prevented her father’s death however it can be seen to blame an unsupportive indifferent way of thinking society that killed her father, not the truck. Successfully however she is able to break common conventionalism, opening the path for others through her experiences to find one’s self. Consequently making American what we are today, a network allowing people to express who they freely creating a new and open social
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