Fun Home Ch. 1+2

team 2: time and motion;
since time flips around to different points in the authors past time is a big theme in this graphic memoir. the reader really has to interperet time from the naration mostly. with motion, there is some use of the occational "zip-ribbon." like on p11 they're used to depict the christmas tree falling and her brother running away.

i personally took particular note of the apathy in bechdel's depiction of her family. they had been raised in a way that it seems they could only get by without feeling. they're lack of emotion about death for example. but that makes sense seeing as she and her siblings were constantly exposed to it.
i actually find this interesting. unlike my opinion of beard's essay that i disliked because of her lack of control, i liked this and was intrigued by their reactions (or rather, lack of reactions). its curious that she mentioned how she had to look to others to experience the emotions she should be feeling vicariously. p45 she tells of how she would tell others about her father's death in order to access the grief she never felt.

i was also amused at the comparison of her family to The Addams Family. it seems an odd thing for someone to actually relate their family to, but at the same time it seems acurate.