2 or 3 Things I Know For Sure

“Two or Three Things I Know For Sure” was somehow confusing for me to read at the beginning to till I read. I tried to remember two things and forget the third, if I remember the third I would forget the other two. So reading this book for me is just like its title. I kind of look at this novel as the other novel that we read called “Fun Home”. Just like in Fun Home, how author was going back and forth while writing the story, this book is kind similar to it. Fun Home was a tragicomic with all the imagery in it; this novel also includes real life photographs. The way of writing, imagery, and expressing the story are little different in these books, but the idea is same. I easily get confused while reading the stories where author changes the story a lot or goes back and forth in the timing of story. So, these two books are kind of like that. This story is based on author life, who is Dorothy Allison. It’s a story of Gibson women, who’s her mother, sisters, cousins, her aunts, and the men who loved them or married them and abused them. I think one of most important part of her life was her mother. Her mother was a beautiful woman and men wanted her. At the age of fifteen, her mother became pregnant with her by the boy her mom loved. But he deceived her mother and left them all alone and after that her mother stopped trusting men. “When he ran away, left her to raise me alone, she never trusted any man again”. I think that was the moment, which turned her mother from beautiful, ignorant, proud, happy and hopeful girl to a bitter, hard, tired and ugly woman. I think this is just not a story of her mother, it’s a story of every other woman who trusts the man of her dreams more than herself and at the end all she gets is deceive by that man and left all alone in the field. Allison grew up be different than her mom. I think because of her mother she chose to be different than her. She thinks herself as crispy, efficient, and a kind of person who do things that are necessary to do. But her aunt Dot says, “You mean and stubborn and completely Ruth’s daughter”. Her aunt describes her as a mean, stubborn, and an ugly girl. But Allison doesn’t care about what other say, she stay in her own world, so that she wouldn’t have to go through what her mother had to. She says, “I don’t hold grudges. I kick butt and keep moving”. She had a good bond with her mother. I think her mother was a kind of person who keeps a lot secret in their hearts. When Alison used to shuffle through the pictures in mamma’s box, there were so many faces with a lot stories. So, her mother was keeping a lot in her heart. I think by looking at her mother and also by what she had to go through in family, she didn’t want to become like her mother and that’s why she tries to do or be different than her mother. I mean she was abused mentally and sexually by her own family, which is a big obstacle that comes into a child’s life that keeps you away from moving on. I am just wondering that what else she will do in her life to move on. I looking forward to read more and find out about it. I think it’s an interesting story and also in some way it’s a story of every girl’s life, who’s abused physically, mentally, and sexually.