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.