This was a really
interesting way to read about the Holocaust. In high school I remember reading Night and watching Schindler’s List and reading other books and learning a lot about
the Holocaust, but Maus was a completely new way to learn about it.
It was really
interesting how the comic was about a man writing a comic about his fathers
experience surviving the Holocaust. It was interesting how
it showed the interview going on then showing what his father was explaining.
The character design was really well done I thought, having the Jews as mice
and Nazi’s as cats, everybody instantly knows that cats chase and kill mice so
it added to the hate and depth of the story. Between the mice and cats as
characters, and the fact that it is a comic, made it an interesting way to read
about the Holocaust, it almost made it seem unreal. It was on a fine line
between real and fake because of the way it was presented.
The relationship
between the father and son and new wife worked well with the story. I feel like
if everybody was a happy family then it would change the mood of the story too
much and make the fathers story seem too fake. But the hatred his dad has
towards his new wife really adds to the story because he is in constant
mourning over his wife who was lost in the Holocaust, which is the story he is
telling. This was an interesting
way to read about the same thing in a new way. Obviously the story is different
from what I have read in the past, but the character change and format really
made it interesting.
