2 or 3 things i know for sure

In, 2 or 3 Things I know for Sure, by Dorothy Allison, pictures are sporadically posted in the novel to give the reader a sense of what Allison's life was truly like.  I think that the pictures do a good job in keep the reader entertained, and willing to read more than it would if this biography did not have these pictures in it. The pictures all may seem to be just another average photograph that would be found laying around the house, but all of them seem to have an underlying message that Allison can connect to very strongly.  Also, by looking at the photos, as the story progresses, you can tell when Allison's life started to change for the worse.  I think that this is not laziness of the author, and not just a way to show off her photographs from her childhood to the readers, but rather a way of enhancing the reader's experience by adding another form of media into the novel.  A picture is worth 1000 words, and Allison admits to this on page 39, when it reads, "Behind each story I tell is the one I don't."  This simply reinforces the idea that she uses multimedia to support the memoirs that she wants the reader to see as vividly as possible.  I think that this book has a similar feel to that of Fun Home, because of the way she not only writes, but shows the reader about her struggles and hardships of her life at home.  I enjoy this, as not only does it make it an easier read, but it truly gives the reader a sense of who was truly in her life, and what they looked like.