Maus

I have recently read maus by art spiegelman. It was about a holocaust survivor Vladek who was telling his memories to his son Artie who is a cartoonist. Vladek had a life with lots of hardships and troubles but he made brave decisions and this is why he survived. Vladek's wife Anja also survived too and committed suicide after the holocaust. Vladek and Anja traveled back and forth between Poland and rego park, NY. This book was very intense and surprising.

I loved how the author uses the most common hunter to hunted. Cats as Nazis and Mice as the Jewish. Cats are very bigger and stronger than mice and mice cannot damage cats and that was how the holocaust was. I didn't get the line in the beginning of the story "If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week then you could see what it is, friends." I also didn't get why he came back to this memory out of everything else in his life. I thought maybe it was too show the brave things his father said. I also liked how art used lots of texture instead of color.

I loved maus it left me on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it and sometimes I just couldn't stop reading it. I can't wait to read the second one and this book taught me so much about history and the type of things the Jews went through. I have realized that this is a kind of biography/memoir/ fiction and the way the author mixed these things was amazing.