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Writing, for many authors and artists, is an outlet of self-expression to help cope with whatever they may have faced throughout their lives, or simply to express how they feel.  Alison Bechdel and Eve Ensler both use their writing to get their words and feelings out in a way that it otherwise wouldn’t.  Bechdel, in Fun Home uses pictures and writing to depict and exemplify her life.  She uses satire and dark humor to give the reader a sense of the lives of a family who play a non-traditional role, although it may not seem that way from the outside.I think that she uses her comic tone to, in a sense, poke fun, at her father’s role and the effect that it had on her childhood and throughout life.  Bechdel’s ability to look at a subject that is rarely touched on or brought to public attention in such a comedic and satirical tone clearly shows that it is truly an outlet for her, as well as Eve Ensler.  Ensler also used subjects that have been essentially kept away from the public in order to express something that she felt passionately about. Both authors use tones, that to me, almost gave me the feeling that they have a secret that they have been to keep, but are trying to tell the general public.  I think that this is caused by the fact that both authors use subjects, which, perhaps because of my gender, are so seldom discussed in such a manner.  I think that it is good that there are women who are willing to express their emotions and stories with an open audience.  I believe that it is good to hear a female’s point of view on subjects that often kept disclosed.  Both authors use the art of literature to express the things that are kept close to themselves, and far from everyday conversation.