MAUS (6points)

 Maus is a graphic novel that depicts Spiegelman talking to his father about the struggles and tough events the Jews had to go through during the Holocaust. Maus was a really captivating graphic novel, I really like history and learning more about historic events and this graphic novel was just really interesting it made you read more and more. Using animal symbolism I think was a good idea and it reminded me of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Still to this day mouse and cat the two their unjust fight continues and why is that? It does not have to be Jews or Muslims or people of color does not matter who it still continues to this day so It was not just a novel or not just an interview/documentary it was deeper than that. The way that Art Spiegelman drew the mouses and the cats or the pigs was interesting and using lots of lines and even the smallest shading the lines created gives a really gloomy and negative atmosphere from time to time. And what I appreciated the most was that Art Spiegelman was able to write and draw the dark moments of his history and while writing the comic he also told us how hard it was for him and his father and what kind of relationship they had. People get affected by everything being in a war is worse this obviously affected their lifestyles and he wrote about this.I knew about the history but since it was his father telling we could understand more and more about the camps and how people went through staying in the barns bunkers etc. or what happened how they got out how could they even survive? And one phrase I want to end this with is from the novel: 

“The biggest pile of bodies lay right next to the door where they tried to get out.” (from the gas chambers)