Monday, September 29, 2008

Fun Home Chapters 1-2

I don't really know where to go with this book, or what to really say about it. In the beginning of it you already could get kind of an idea that as a child this little boy didn't get that much attention from his father because he was trying to enjoy every second that he got being lofted in the air to fly like an airplane. But then as the story went on further, it seemed like the author droped huge news on your lap that made me literally gasp because it was so unexpected but then not refer back to it. For instance when he is talking about his father he explains how many people think that he is a great guy, but would a great guy have sex with little boys. That made me keep reading, wondering if he was having sex with his own sons.
Also I got confused who the narrator of the story was. At times I thought it was a son of his, and then it would change to his daughter it seemed? But it would do so without any hint or of it.
When one of the kids says that he began to resent his father, it explained it perfectly as to fit his fathers personality. Sayaing "I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture." His father was in love with art and placement in his home, but more treated everyone in the home as a figurene instead of an actual human being. He wanted to palce his children in places and have them stay and make his scene perfect it seemed.
The fathers death too came as a huge surprise but you can't really feel sad because of how he treated his family. They said how he would try and make scenes into things that they weren't, to appear to be great while his family was hating every bit of it. His mother as well never seemed to be enjoying herself. Never the less the children hadn't either.But you would think that a mother who stays with a man like this would love him in a way, but she doens't show any love for him or her family much. Though in the end she asks for a divorce, even when they shows her children when they were babies she looks miserable.

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