Maus I

Well I week or so ago I had read the first Maus novel and I thought Spegielman did a wonderful job narrating writing the novel as a whole. I think he did a great job showing the issues that are brought up being a son of a Jewish Holocost survivor and how difficult it really was growing up in such an environment. I have a hard time though feeling for his father though. His first wife and second wife were both in the same circumstances as he was and they didn't seem as bitter about it as he was. I think part of the way he is because the lost of his first wife and he really doesn't want to express what he really went through or tries to suppress it all together. The thing I found really unique was when the comic book that was written about his father was published it was done using humans as the characters. I don't really know why he chose that route but I did think while reading that part was, wow if it was all done in human form the story would have been so much more graphic and possibly scary that it wouldn't have been suitable for younger people to read. Bit overall it was a great book and once I started reading it was really hard to put down.