supermonkeyball

  "The fire spat fat sparks up at pines lining the quarry, up at the moon.  “Know what fire is?” Knife Grinder’s cough’s a dying man’s cough. “Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.” This sentence is very powerful in my opinion. Fire represents many powerful things in history and other sources of media. Fire has a destructive force, it can burn away entire cities, forests and even currently with the California wildfires burning away houses we are still seeing the effects fire can have on humans and the earth. But fire can also represent rebirth, after everything is burned away, there is a new start, there is space to rebuild. Even in taking care of prairies, they use fire to help the growth of areas. The sun is also a powerful metaphor in many cultures. The sun can represent power and glory among other things. This imagery is strong because when you think about it, the wood is losing its glory as the strong tree that stands against nature and it is giving up its glo...

  The first thing mentioned in this book is the analogy Alison makes between herself, her father, Bruce and Icarus and Daedalus while they are playing the airplane game together. I think it's interesting Alison brings up Greek mythology, because while Bruce shares many similarities to Daedalus, I find it more interesting to compare Bruce with the god of the underworld, Hades, as both deal with death as well as share similar themes.  They share a similarity as Bruce runs the “Fun home” which is a funeral home, Hades runs the underworld which could be seen as the “Fun Home” of Greek mythology (although definitely not as fun because you know dead spirits and what not). I would also argue that they also share similar aesthetics. Dark gothic architecture always reminds me of death and age whenever I see the long columns and age and time. This style of architecture also drew comparisons of her family and the ever gloomy Addams family. But unlike Bruce, Hades is enamored with his wif...