"He Was There to Catch Me When I Lept"

     The book "Fun House had a lot going on within its story line.  I wasn't really sure where it was going and what major point the book was trying to make.  I had a hard time writing blogs because I wasn't really sure where to go with this book.  However, when I finished the book and I read the last line, "he was there to catch me when I lept."  Tied everything together.
     The book was about the author growing up with her gay father who preyed on younger boys, her mother who was busy with her dissertations, and he family who were so unique and filled with a lot of responsibilities and passions.  Her Father like interior and exterior designs, reading, art, and clothes.  He was a closet gay and was pretending to be someone he wasn't.  He never came out that he was gay but it showed through with the guys he was cheating on his wife with.  Her Mother also showed signs that he was gay by being angry when he did certain things like going on trips with the kids and a guy who worked with the family.  Throughout the authors childhood she never expected her father to be gay, but by her father being gay do to this last line in the book she was able to come out with her own sexuality.
     The author didn't come out till she was in college when she fully realized that she was lesbian.  She was the closest to her father at the time because they were intellectual companions and they wrote back and forth to each other while she was away.  When she mentioned that she was gay he hinted off that he was to but never fully came out.  However, in his letters and words and gave her good advice and kind of encouraged it without really encouraging it.  For example, he mentioned in one of his letters that when he was in college in the 50s that wasn't acceptable and that she was fortunate that she was able to go to college in that era where things were more open.
     Even after his death he helped her.  When she found out about her father's crimes and sexuality she kind of related to him more and took his mistakes to not create her own.  Knowing that her father bottled it up and could have led to his death she doesn't want to make the same mistake.  She was going to live her life to who she was and that was it she wasn't going to pretend that she was someone she wasn't.  In some ways he helped her come to terms with who she was.
     So the last words of the graphic novel, "He was there to catch me when I lept."  Encompasses what the author wanted to get across in the end to the readers.  That there was someone for her to look to.  She had advice and someone who listened to her to get her through the tough times of coming out and even afterwards.  Homosexuality isn't completely acceptable in societies eyes even today.  It could also be a message for those who live in the same predicament or the author could have been taking it deeper to say that when there is a problem because everyone is human you can have someone to turn to.