week 11 comics as contemporary literature Fun home and My favorite thing is Monsters : ( 12 points )

Read Fun home : ( 6 points ) 

I finally read Fun Home for the first time. The story reminds me of Maus, but the story is being told by the daughter as posed to the father telling his own story. So we do not know which is exaggerated in second-hand memories. 

The descriptions the narrator uses to describe their relationship with their childhood home and family is fascinating. They use many greek myths and stories to describe their relationship with their father, and they describe their home as the labyrinth with how large it is, and their father as the monitor, as children scared to turn the corner of the house, they may run into him. 

This perfectionist looks the dad has, focusing on the smallest things. He is almost robotic and hyper-fixated on the house, for it was the only thing he felt he could control. I found the father projecting an image on the house, trying to cover up anything inside and outside the house, interesting. He has a blurry line between reality and fiction within the house and himself. 

I can empathize with the narrator's relationship with their father at the start of the book. When I was younger, I was struggling to connect with my father, as well. He was always working, and I didn't get to talk to him as much as now.  I can certainly relate to the idea of wanting to connect with someone and showing love to someone and feeling scared, angry, and annoyed to show it when they do not show it to you often. 

It's even more challenging than when they grew up, trying to come out to their family and become their own person, yet still, get pulled back into her father's drama with new information even after he passed. The felt as if their story wasn't her own. 

My favorite thing is monsters ( 6 points ): 

 

 My favorite thing is monsters by Emily Ferris. I thought it was very cool that the drawings were all pen and in drawings were all ballpoint pen in a notebook. All the drawings are beautiful and very well rendered portraits in pen. The Drawings are what make me want to continue reading it. It feels more like a diary of events or a journal. The story is told by a little girl who resembled a 'monster' with long fangs, extra fur, and pointed ears like a wear wolf. She talks about the story as what it is like living with her mother and humans that see her differently. The story has a supernatural science fiction feeling. The story talks about racism and classics um and shows people excluded for how they looked, but it's the frame through the eyes of a person walking through it and seeing it every day. There is a bit of mystery to everything, mostly because the story is told through a curious young girl's eyes. While reading it, you have multiple questions, like why is she the only monster, are there more monsters, what behind the doors in her Basement, and who murdered her neighbor. But it is all framed as an everyday Journal.