" Adaptation or to be accepted are forcing some adolescents to comply with the inclusion of personal changes. Some youths like Alison in Fun Home have doubts of different themes during their life that is difficult to express with their families. Therefore, they prefer to talk with strangers than with their own parents, simply because they are afraid of being rejected during their adjustment period. .
Bechdel provides different shape and thickness of the lines on faces that can allow a visual translation of emotions. .
Also, some different curve lines on items create visible actions. Bechdel is trying to illustrate not only physical world, but also the invisible world of expressionism with lines and symbols that most readers can instinctively relate these shapes with emotions or actions. For instance, Alison was a small town girl living in a big house where the furniture was treated with more tenderness than she was. The scene where the figures are dark silhouettes, and her father said "how did this vase get to close to the edge of the table?" could represent the terror that she has of her father. At the same time, in the next scene, which features her father's hand, readers can appreciate the lines around Alison's face and symbols above her brother, which are reflecting the fear that many children have, to be hit. Viewers can visualize these feelings when her father hit her without doing anything. Therefore, this scene-to-scene panel is showing a cultural complex that some people had to pass during their childhood. During the last and present century, most parents are educating their children as their ancestors did. Cultural influences can affect people since they have to follow traditions that may go against their own personal beliefs. For example, Alison's father who had to follow certain cultural functions as marry a woman, having children, and showing less emotion to his family, which conflicts with his real identity.
