Maus by Art Spiegelman Review

This is probably one of my more favorite books during my later grades. This book is called Maus and I was first shown it by my previous English teacher last as for the banned book project and I can safely say that I enjoy this book even though it is seen as controversial for some viewers. Which I can understand due to the suicidal topics as well as the propaganda put into this story. I never read the other books so I will do the first one written by Art Spiegelman who is in the story itself but not the main character/

To grossly oversimplify, the Book Maus stars a character Named Art or Artie as he is nicknamed by his father, trying to write a story for his upcoming book. But the problem he doesn't have a subject to base it on so he goes to his now sickly father and stepmothers house and he asks if his father Vladek could tell the story of how he and his late mother met and also about his now deceased elder brother, and he tells him about his travels around Europe during the phase of the Great Depression to World War II and his serving in the military and how he survived the tragic Holocaust since he was of Jewish faith.

The thing I like about the story was how different things were Vladek and also his feeling of not wanting to live through pain any longer near the end of the book. its like now that he's turned much older he can look back at things and just an atmosphere on how much the world around changed, the people around and how much he has changed without even noticing. I also like how much of a caring man he tries to be for his wife when she was at her lowest point in her life and when she lost him you can see the sadness that engulfed and the type of methods he used to cope with it as you will see near the end of the book. He also shows how much more different his life and upbringing was compared to his son and how much he doesn't want him to end up just like him. To be more successful than him, to have a better life than he ever have could. I also appreciate how the story deals with this topic, it doesn't go to crazy with things and handles it in a much more respectful manner. I appreciate how the art is, its not to realistic but its more cartoonish so people the deaths wont be too brutal its just pretty simplistic.

As much as I do respect the book the one final thing Ill say is that that I'm kind of sad of the fact that I never got to read the other books to see what happens after because I was actually genuinely curious of the outcome. I hope that someday I can find a version of the 2nd book. This is the end of my review sorry if its a little rushed or repetitive or something because I didnt want this to be sent late so it could be kind of rushed. Thank you for reading and this is the end, Bye.

-Elliot