Thursday, September 6, 2012
Reader Response #2- Bechdel
Okay, so I have to be honest and say that I did not have one clus as to what the point of this story/comic was. Then again, I do have huge problems with trying to understand the meaning of what I just read. But, anyway, I thought the way it started it was going to be very interesting. Like, looking and exploring more into the dream that she had. After her father died, literally right after, like before the funeral, the whole story had me lost. I had no idea as to why he died because so many things were thrown at me at once. I don't know, maybe it is just me. Then, she went on to decribe a highway for a while and I am not sure if that was just to show the reader where she lived and how small of a town it really was, or what. The story, then, took a weird turn in my opinion. She talked about, what I thought, random things, like the daylight savings time, and the acidic water from the mine runoff. Then, all of a sudden she's into poetry??? Also, I had no idea what her dad was doing when he took the coloring book from her. Her mom almost reminded me of a housewife with her attitude. I do not really know what was going on in this story, but what I DO know is that it had something to do with sunsets. Maybe someone can help explain?
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Hey Kristi. I am completely on the same page with you. I had no idea what Alison Bechdel was trying to tell in her comic book. All I got was her father was gay, he committed suicide and she had a very dysfunctional family. I totally got lost right after the first page maybe even the first sentence. Grant it I read it about two times. Even the second time reading the excerpt still nothing seemed to pop out at me. I started to get so irritated thinking over what is Mrs. Piro going to ask us in class over this reading because I had no idea what it was about. I honestly don’t even understand her purpose. Your right with what you said about the mountains and showing us where she lives. I don’t understand that at all. I think it was just to show us how small her town really is. I feel like she got off topic a lot. But I also feel bad for criticizing her work since she is known to be an amazing writer. In my opinion this story had such descriptive words it made me get lost in the writing. I really did have to use my phone as a dictionary throughout the comic. I kind of felt stupid, but her writing was so intense I sometimes couldn’t even understand a sentence she wrote.
ReplyDeleteI’m hoping our next reading won’t be as hard to read. Now that we’ve been to class and had Mrs. Piro reiterate and help us understand the writing I feel like I have a little better insight on what was trying to be said.