Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Maus


--------Maus is a comic book that explains a dreadful time in history where six million Jews were killed, this book share's a Jewish man's life in the Holocaust. The begins with Arte Spiegelman asking his father about writing a book about his times in Poland during the Holocaust. Every day Arte learns more and more about his father, whether it was him in hiding or him making an escape from the Nazis, Arte was intrigued with what went on at those times. Finally he learned how his dad made it to America and was free from any communism.
---------Arte has always been concerned with his dad and has always been interested in writing. When his mother died he faced a time of depression but he felt it was necessary for him and the whole world to hear about his parents life in Poland during World War 2.
---------Valdek is a very determined and unselfish person. During the Holocaust, he was always optimistic about him being someday free no matter what the circumstances were. His family always comes first and it was his goal to make sure him and his wife survive this terrible time. He never took things for granted and everything special in life was his to treasure.
--------This book helped me see how the Holocaust effected people then and now. The book gave me a sense of thankfulness and pride that i am able to live in a country so wonderful and be fortunate enough to be free in expressing what i believe in.
--------Art Spiegelman used great illustration and detail to explain his father's story in the Holocaust. The comic book form used in this book was very interesting and set an image for the reader to see what time's back then were like.
-------In this book i used a lot of inferencing to help me understand and to help me realize plans that Valdek and others used to escape the Germans. In the book it mentioned Valdek going on a train to escape from Poland, i already knew that there was Germans waiting to put him in jail, sure enough when the train stopped officers began arresting any Jews located in the train.

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