Maus- [Dan Ketelhut]


It is horrifying when the human race lets something like the Rwandan Genocide happen. After all we are a species that learns from our mistakes, something like this will never ever happen again....... right?
Well no one can predict the future, but for one we do know our past. Last time I checked The Holocaust was exactly the same in every way. Genocides start when a culture is put in power over another. If a 15 year old from Metro-Detroit understands this why shouldn't the rest of the world. The Holocaust already happened so why did the Rwandan Genocide? I always thought that it was unethical to let unforgivable things happen to people in general, but I guess parents are not enforcing that much anymore. So in relation to The Holocaust the human race is all Nazi's. I mean we all just sat back and watched what was happening to those people and that is just disgusting. This is why in the book Maus by Art Speiglman the humans are perceived as animals because of the dreadful slaughters that happened and the way people just watched and did nothing.

The main reason that the human race is perceived as this is that we are too prideful about everything we do, we just glorify all that we do. We are so brainwashed into thinking that everything we do is perfect and we never make mistakes. This is why the holocaust has already happened more than once and could even happen again. Ignorance is the problem here if we can stop being so narcissistic then we can maybe prevent war.

Another reason why we are animals is the way we act toward people out of fear. It's like a dog eat dog world and it shouldn't be. If someone treats someone like dirt then others will so they won't be treated that way. Germans hated Jews so much and talked about how nasty they were. This is why when the war started we didn't want to interfere much with what was happening no way we didn't go into Germany because fear they would take us over. It was the same exact thing with Rwanda. But there was even more exposure to what was happening, it was the attitude we had in Rwanda that was the most disappointing. Who cares about Africans war happens all the time over there cause they are all tribal. If you think that you should be ashamed.

Overall its these animalistic ideas of us being better than everyone else that Art Speiglman used in the story Maus to convey people as animals. Cause when you look at what we have done in the past, how far away from animals are we?