10-2-08 Maus

This week I have finished the novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. Before I even read the first page I questioned what exactly could this book be about. The first thing that stood out to me was the Nazi symbol on the top of the book that is engulfed by a mouse. After reading the story I quickly realized how awful and how dramatic the Holocaust truley was. I never knew all of the details that came along with the story of the Holocaust and how something of this magnitutde could have been accepted, it's borderline barbaric. I found most of the pictures in the book to be very inlightning, but I have to mention the hangings on pg 83 because even tho you see mice being hanged, the reader can still picture an actual human being put into that same position and I myself can see how someone could see that image replayed into their head over and over. In the end I am glad that I read the book and understood what was going on in the dialouge and the backstory. I found the end of the book ironic because Vladek burns his sons mother's diaries and his son called him a murderer, in a sense Vladek did what the Germans did to the jews.