Fun Home final response

As I posted in my previous blog entry, reading the book "Fun Home" was a whole new different experience for me. I think that Alison Bechdel decision to make this book a graphic novel was a great choice because it helped make sense of the book a little bit better. When you read a book, you really have to have a sense of imagination in order to capture an image in your head from what your reading. I tend to have a little bit of trouble with this because I'm not an avid reader, nor do I enjoy reading too much unless its something that captures my attention from the moment I begin reading it. The images in the book made it that much easier for me to understand what was going on which allowed me to read the book faster. I don't think I've ever read a book as fast as I read this one. This book overall was just a wierd book to me but definitely not in a bad way, because the wierdness kept my attention. The entire plot was just of a situation that many can say they have never heard of in real life or can even relate to which compelled me even more. I think that Alison's father definitely killed himself. I don't think that he planned on it but merely saw an opportunity and was spontaneous about it. My reasoning for this conclusion is because it was evident that he was very uncomfortable with his own sexuality and despised it. You can see in the pictures that Alison was very boyish even at a young age and he tried to get her to be more lady like. Then Alison opened up to him and told him she was gay and shortly there after he killed himself. So I think that her coming out bothered him that much more and when he saw that truck coming it was just a spontaneous "I'im killing myself."