I kinda liked it. I felt that the novel could have expanded more in many places and the end though powerful was rather flat. I did enjoy the allusion to icarus though. I also question the validity of the story/plot. When we first started this class, I read blankets and assumed that it was an entirely fictional piece, because thats what comics were to me, fictional cartoons. Not until the very end did i realize that the craig from the book was Craig Thompson the author. By reading the novel this way it made all the unbelievable aspects of the work more acceptable for me, because in my mind it was a work of fiction. After i had the realization that it was a memoir, it was too late for me to start questioning details because I had already finished. This was not true for Fun Home, i knew from the beginning that this was supposedly the true story of her life. I felt that it was believable for the most part, but some of the crucial details, such as the diary and the letters, made me question the reality of the work. I would like to know if those were real objects she wrote the story from, and if they were did her re-reading of those texts change her outlook on the story and alter the way she remembered her father and her childhood? Could things really have been as bad as she expressed at the beginning if at the end her father was "always" there to catch her?
Some of these questions popped into my head as i was reading and it disturbed the flow of the plot for me. I think it is better, if you are looking to enjoy the work, to read it as a work of fiction or semi fiction in-order to accept the unreal.
Overall it was a controversial peaice becasue of the topic and the possible ramifications of the text to those still living and i think the book tried to tiptoe around that fact leaving out important ponts that could have enhanced the plot, but its understandable .
Thats my final take on Fun Home
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