Maus

     Maus was a interesting comic and i can see why it one so many awards. i did not realizes how long it was. it took me four an a half hours to finish it. The story is about Art Speigelman's fathers time surviving the holocaust and how he and his family evaded the nazis in world war two. i found his story very engaging and thought provoking. It showed how clever and resourceful his father was trying to evade capture of him and his family. what started to annoy me about the comic was how it would constantly and abruptly cut back to the present when Art is interviewing his father. i would get so invested into the story and then sudden cut to the present, not my favorite parts.

     while reading through the first book i realized it was more about Arts relationship with his father and how they get along, and also his fathers story. however Art's story tends to compete with his fathers and personally i don't much care for Art's story, i care about his fathers. Art also seems to have some resentment towards his father for being i guess "the stereotypical jew". I feel if anyone were to survive what his father been through by surviving hell on earth. then his father can act be however he wants. His fathers stories of how he lived with his in-laws and helped them move from safe haven to safe haven shows just how horrible his situation was and what he and other people did to survive, and that to me is more than Art complaining that his dad wants him to come over for the weekend to fix the roof.

     I assume tha these two stories are supposed to parallel each other in some way by showing how much better Art had it than his father at his age but it comes off showing that Art is trying to compare his troubles with his father, and it can't be done. it seems like this more so in the second book when Art is talking about how well the first book did and he is making money of his fathers story. i can see why Maus has won so many awards and is such a good read but i could do with Art's side of the story.