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EN234 Unit 7 Reading Journal

20 July 2020

Alison Bechdel- A Fun Home

I read the chapter before I read the “about” section on Google books. Because of this

when I read the first chapter I just thought, “wow that guy was a jerk. It’s sad for the kids he’s

dead now because that’s hard for some to process but, he was a piece of work.” I had a father that

didn’t show affection and still doesn’t on the rare occasion I see or speak to him. My father also

had his work and a hobby of fixing things and was verbally abusive to my mother and I and

although he never hit me, he would break things. This similar childhood experiences made it

very easy for me to relate and see the story through the eyes of the narrator. I tried to see if the

preview let me read much further, but I only got one page of chapter 2. But it was enough to

interest me with the idea that his suicide might not be a suicide…When I read the first chapter, I

got this sense of emptiness and sadness from everyone… the kid, the mom, and the dad. The

father always kept his mind working between teaching and restoring the house and had no

patience left for children and most likely for none for the wife either. The comics drawings

almost are distracting to me however, I read and try to take in details from the panels as I go. I

feel I might miss things in the drawings though.

20 July 2020

Sam Alden- Haunter

I’ve never really read much graphic fiction outside of comic books as a child and teenager. I just

never really got into it. I often find the visuals distracting to the story since I have sometimes

pictured characters, setting and events differently in my mind when I read the stories. Graphic

fiction takes that away from you to me, personally. Interestingly, at random, I chose Sam Alden’s

“Haunter” to read for my second graphic fiction which ended up having nothing to actually read.

I would probably say this is a science fiction genre of graphic fiction although the site classified

it as horror. With that argument, maybe it is horror for how the second part ended. Alden’s

“Haunter” was all comic panels with no text. Which kind of left the story to me in the end…I

enjoyed the bright, water colors. I was also impressed by the way the illustrations captured

movement. It felt like I was actually watching our protagonist run through the forest and dive in

the water. What appears to me to be a woman is hunting a strange looking boar. The huntress

then finds herself in a hidden temple deep in the jungle she was hunting. From there and then

seems to find a way into another world where he is the hunted by a humanoid type man now in

the same manner that he was hunting the boar. I did not realize at first that this was a part 1 of 2

until I was reading about Sam Alden. Once I realized this, I had to find part 2 which I did at the

link at the end of part 1 (I obviously was not very observant the first time). I noticed the huntress

found a chest with was seemed to be a gun and maybe a cellphone. I’m wondering if this a “postapocalyptic” world of sorts. The ending was interesting when we see the wound caused by the

arrow to our protagonist, was sprouting in the same way that the other-worldly-giant huntress

had growing from her.