Fun Home

Fun home has namy themes in it but the one that stood out to me the most was developing an identity. Growing up she was confused as no other and expressing herself to her parents wasn't an easy thing to do. She experimented with girls and tried to find herself. One thing that helped make a lot of sense was when she was in the car with her father and her father said that when he was younger he experimented with boys and he also said that growing up he always felt like he should have been a girl. Then she asked her father if he remembered how she would always want to dress up as a boy when she was younger. A lot of similarities came out between her and her father and it helped me understand the book more. Her father knew what she was going through and I think that made her feel at least a little but more comfortable talking to her dad. She didn't want to disappoint her parents but she knew she had to find herself and what she wanted wasn't what "society" calls normal so it was frightening for her.

I'm an Emotional Creature

The lives of girls today are very complicated. Well most girls make their lives more complicated then they need to be. I know as i was growing up i always wanted to fit in and tried so hard to do so and still today there is a pressure to fit in. For the younger crowd of girls it is more difficult because they have to be in with the in crowd at school and they have to wear the coolest clothes or have the coolest hairstyles. Not only is this wrong, but it lets girls think that they cant be themselves in order to be liked by people. Some girls think that they can't be liked if they don't wear the latest style of jeans from Abercrombie or the newest pair of UGGS. If it isn't expensive then it isn't cool to wear. I remember one time i went to school wearing a new shirt that i bought and my friend came up to me and told me she loved my shirt, but once i told her i got the shirt from walmart she was disgusted. Just because you don't have expensive clothes doesn't mean you can't look good and have friends. If your friends don't like you because you don't have anything nice or because you don't fit in to what the "popular" kids are wearing or doing then they aren't your true friends. They should like you because of who you are and what you are about.