Maus I

Definitely the best read we have had so far this semester. I seriously loved this book, and actually wanted to read it to see what was going to happen next. Maybe I am a visual learner of something, but I just got this book. It was so real-just extraordinary. I am not a huge comic book fan, but the way that this story flowed, it just seemed like a poem...weird, I know.

Probably my favorite part of the book was the relationship that the father and son had. It was just so real-probably because it was real. It reminded me of the relationship that I have with my parents. A relationship that I think we all sort of have as young people, when we think we know more than our parents. The father telling his story is just so touching, and I think that as a reader, you cannot help to like the father. He sort of reminded me of my grandpa, the way he did things that were so odd and the son could not convince him otherwise.

The relationship that I found a little confusing was the father's relationship with his new wife, Mala and the one with his first wife Anja. I talked to a friend who has read the second book and she said that I'll find out more about it later. I guess I just don't understand why the father married Mala...

I also found it interesting that the father actually shared this story with his son. I think that if I had gone through this experience, I would never even want to think about it. Maybe that's why Anja killed herself-because she did just keep it all in. I can obviously see that the father is very strong. He is the strong and stable one throughout everything. I think that by sharing this story with his son, he is sort of releasing everything that happened.

What an awful thing. It's so sad at what happened to so many innocent people. Sometimes, if seems like it could just not be real. I think that this book very well makes it real.