University Laboratory High School

Spring 2023

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Notebook prompt: An Antihero's Journey?

Why does Alison Bechdel title the seventh and final chapter of Fun Home "The Antihero's Journey"? What ideas does it evoke, and how do you see these manifest in the chapter (and the book as a whole)? In what sense might we view Bruce as an antihero? Would this make Alison the "hero" of her own narrative? How, in the end, does this graphic memoir frame the complex relationship between these two protagonists?

Please take 5 minutes to contemplate these questions in your Notebook.

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