blogging of age novel

 Hey everyone!       Today I will talk about Fun Home  and Alison's interesting relationship with her father, Bruce. Throughout the book, we slowly learn more and more about their relationship, their interactions, their similarities, and their differences. However, the book is not narrated in a chronological way which can make stitching together when the interactions between them more difficult at times. It can also make it more difficult to keep track of when different people know or have done what. The relationship that Alison has with her father is very complicated for a lot of reasons. They are very similar to each other in a lot of ways, yet still almost complete opposites. They are both gay, at least from what we can tell of Bruce, and they both have had many similar experiences in this matter. However, the way that they handled it and viewed it was much different.        Alison, on the other hand, grew up in a much different ...

Hey everyone!       Today I will talk about  The Bell Jar  and whether or not the main character, Esther, has really come of age at the end of the book. The first question to ask is what exactly it means to come of age. In this case, it is the transition from Esther's college life to the real adult world, and how and where she will fit into society. The main problem that she has with this change is her loss of control over herself and her decisions in life. Her only option appears to be getting married to a man. She despises the idea of losing control over her autonomy, being confined to her own house and children, and always being subject to her husband's wishes. Throughout the book, she struggles to find her identity as an independent woman in her society. I think a good argument can be made for Esther having "come-of-age" in this novel. However, I don't think it is a completely black-and-white issue: arguments could be made for both sides. Overall though...