MAUS

Maus: by Art Speiglemen

I am reading the graphic novel Maus by Art Speiglemen, the story is about a kid learning of his father's life story during the holocaust. The strange thing though is that everyone is represented as animals. Possibly this could be saying that we are all primal animals if we could let something this horrific happen to us such as the Holocaust.

There is a reason to that the Jewish community are represented as mice. They are mice because during the holocaust Jews were treated so terrible, and their living conditions were of that as a mouse. Also they are mice because when we think of mice we just want to kill them and not want them to be near us ever. This at the time was the outlook on Jewish people and though now it is horrible, then it was just something that happened. The worst part is that's what the whole world thought.

So far the book MAUS has been very interesting and is showing that the holocaust was not only killing there was the stealing of the Jewish economy and business. It is really an amazing point of view coming from a survivor. It an amazing story and i would never have thought that this many people would have been sent to the Auschwitz camp for the gas room.