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.