Overcoming adversity
The main theme portrayed throughout Allison Bechdel's Fun Home is overcoming adversity. Bechdel overcame several obstacles in her life that ultimately resulted in positive results. Similarly, I faced an obstacle during my senior year of high school regarding my dance team. I was captain of the Hills East Dixettes and we faced several hardships that we had to overcome. The struggle was tough, but ultimately, we succeeded. I chose this page from Fun Home as it portrays Bechdel's reveal to her parents that she is a lesbian. She faced an adversity and had to come out to her parents, a situation no adolescent wants to face.