I Choose Maus by Art Spiegleman

All i gotta say is, this book is awesome!! I would rate maus a 4.5 out of 5. The book i'm reading is maus by Art, Spiegelman. This book is revolving around the author's father and his family's experiences in the days of the holocaust. The way the author drags you in by introducing you with a little family comedy is amazing i didn't really expect much out this book because for many years i've learned a lot about the holocaust and thought that i knew it all. The author goes his way explaining a different view that i never thought of. The spigelman family are jewish and the way the author goes about telling their story is by through their memories. I would always try to think what it would've been like as a jew during that time but the author opened my eyes as i was reading this book it was like learning every tragedy all over again. I reason i rated this book so high

Throughout a long semester of reading, I think one book stands out as the best, The Chosen. In my opinion, the relatable story made the book much more enjoyable, due to my Jewish friends and my admiration of the resilient Jewish faith. Next, I liked reading the book because of its deep-rooted characters; I never had to guess as to how they felt or about their weighty history. Lastly, Chaim Potok used expert literary styles, like exhibiting the thoughts od the characters, which made his book quite entertaining to read. I liked The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, the most out of all the books I read this semester because of the relatable story, fully developed characters and expert writing style.

* Art Spiegelman is the author and narrator of Maus, and also one of the story's main characters.

Although Maus is a comic book, it has much greater impact and complexity than other works in this genre. And I feel that it really does a great job on story telling with the aspect of truth. It does not describe people as good or bad. To me, it is more likely to show those characters as a cat wearing a mask of the mouse, a mouse wearing a mask of pig, or a dog wearing a mask of the cat, etc. Therefore, I think that Maus has done well enough for its reader on one of its

It is difficult to imagine Maus in another format than this one, in another medium than comics, which allows resources such as those shown here. How to get in any other narrative form that delicate balance between detachment and involvement? Maus is a fascinating exploration of a tragedy, the story of survival with all that that means for those who did not survive, chronic small acts of kindness that are saving lives, whose cruelties record coldness still shakes us. It is a comic book masterpiece.

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To further discuss, for the eldest son, his relationship with his father was depicted as non existent like this sentence stated, “In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed.” Such a situation is extremely depressing since the father was not an active part of his son’s life, even though he was still

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The Holocaust was a genocide led by Adolf Hitler in the 1930’s and 40’s that took the lives of between six and eleven million people. The graphic novel, The Complete Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, follows a father and son discussing and inscribing the story of the father’s struggle through the Holocaust. Vladek Spiegelman uses his skills and wit to avoid the same fate as roughly six million other Jews. His son, Artie, is having his father recount his story so he can write it down and preserve it as a piece of history. He uses the format of the graphic novel to provoke emotion and truly display what life was like for Jews during this time. Spiegelman uses icons, bleeds, and elements of scrapbooking throughout the text, seen in the men hanging imagery on page 85. These techniques, in one moment of interdependence, signify events to come, the looming presence of the Nazis, and the long struggle for Vladek ahead.

In a time of war, when people are needy and weak, what worked rather well for the Nazi party to get its country back in shape was propaganda. Before World War 2 (1933-1938), the Nazis used propaganda to brainwash their citizens into believing that Germany was the best country, to create anti-Semitism. After losing the first great war which caused a major depression in the state, Nazi’s used Jewish people as a scapegoat for Germany's suffering economy and poor moral. This idea of using propaganda against the Jews tied into the Nazi ideology. Nazi ideology came to be after Adolf Hitler and others created the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)”(Alpha History 1). They called this ideology that they developed ‘National Socialism’, which is now called Nazism today. This ideology was the centerpiece that the Nazi Party moved around. However, The NSDAP didn’t have a very clear expression of its ideology, the only documents that had concrete evidence were the Twenty Five points (1920), and Hitler's journal, Mein Kampf (1924). (Alpha History 1). The core beliefs of the Nazi party are as shown: “Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, Nationalism, Militarism, Expansionism, Economic sovereignty, Traditional values, and Racialism” (BBC 1-2). The effective use of propaganda; which is “Defined as: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc” (Dictionary.com), was one of the main reasons the Nazi

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