MAUS I

So I've finished reading Maus I like a while ago but I'm posting about it today. So Maus I is about a survivor telling his story, well its the survivors son who's writing the story. Anyway the book is about a man named Vladek and his son Artie is writing about his fathers life in Auschwitz. So that's basically what this book is about. And this book is written as a graph novel. I thought this was really interesting because most historical books are usually in a book format or you know what I mean. And art Spiegelman wrote this as a graphic novel. What I thought was also interesting was that instead of using humans as characters he used animal to represent people. Like the Germans as cats and Jews as mice.

I thought this was interesting because you know cats chase mice. And no one likes mice, I mean if you see a mouse in your house you'd probably kill it. So I guess it's showing that back then people thought of Jews that way. Or that the Jews were weak and were helpless and the Germans had power. But I think another reason Spiegelman used animals to represent humans was because people were treated like animals? I guess that race was all they saw in you, i mean all the jews were mice and they all looked alike because they all were drawn the same way and had the same pair of clothes on. So during the holocaust I guess you were only seen as your race and nothing else.

What I also liked about this book was that some of the pictures in this book. I mean the pictures aren't like there so amazing I can cry! There simple and they don't use color, all the pictures are drawn in black and white. And there are some pictures that I guess make you think. Like this one picture where there's Vladek and Anja both walking and trying to survive and the path they're walking is in the shape of a swastika and I guess this is really interesting because they're trying to rum away from danger and they can't because I guess everywhere they walk they can be in danger. So I guess he drew this as fear of his parents as they walked because they were in constant fear. Anyway I think this is a really good book and   everyone should read and that's it.

SLAM!!!!!!!!

So I just started this book yesterday and I'm only on page 61 so I'm not that far in the book. But this book is about a boy named Sam (we don't find out about his name until like 20 pages later ) and it's basically about his life. And the events leading to how he screwed up his life. It's pretty interesting. So sam has a mother who is a single mother and had  a teenage pregnancy so she's always putting pressure on him that he doesn't make the same mistake. And she wants Sam to go to collage and have a great job because everyone else inter family screwed up and didn't go to school because they thought they were going to be multi millionaires so he does get pressured into going into collage and having a good job. And Alice is sam's girlfriend and they've only been together for like I don't know a day and I guess their in love with each other.

So I guess Sam is having problems with his mom. Well they are having relationship problems. His mom is worried that same is going to make the same mistake as she did when she was his age. But Sam keep's pushing her away so she's worried that seeing Alice might be making him do the wrong choices. And that Alice might be the one making him do the wrong thing. Which I totally agree with Sam's mom because they haven't went on their first date and it was Alice's idea to have sex.

SO this book has to deal with child and parent relationships. And we can push our parents away because we think they'r not helping and we can feel old enough to make our own decisions but in reality they're actually trying to help us. Like in this book Sam's mother is trying to help him so he doesn't become a father at the age of 17. But sam thinks his mom is over reacting and he doesn't feel like this is going to happen. And I know sometimes my parents are trying to help me but I always push them away.