Aha.

Well, and here we are. The unit is almost oveeer
I really did not want to read Maus because of the sadness and reality of the facts. I usually intent to read stories in which my mind goes completely into another dimension. A place where people can fly or dragons can exist.
Maus is definitely a book that I would tell my friends about it. But not a book that I would keep reading over and over again.
Here is a wordle
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3108986/Maus%3D_Mouse_in_German

Getting to know the Author ...Art Spiegelman

Here is a little biography on the author of Maus

Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is a comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus...explains wikipedia
Art immigrated to the United States with his parents in his early childhood. Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and started drawing professionally at age sixteen. Despite his parents wanting him to become a dentist, Art Spiegelman majored in art and philosophy.

A letter from Vladek to Anja

This is your forever to be husband, my beloved wife.
How much I have missed you. Everything about you is so righteous. You have been an exceptional mother and wife. We went through so much together and yet, our love has never faded away. And when those hard time came, we were together. It wasn't long before we knew that we were meant to be. All these simple facts of me missing your smell, smile, hugs just meant so much to me. I hope that, wherever you are, you are proud of me and Artie. He is a handsome young man. Very smart and that follows his dreams until the end. He is very different than me, but we have raised him well. Very respectful and responsible young man. But there are so many questions to be asked. Did you not love me enough to bear with me? Did you nit like Artie enough to live with him? Did you think he criticized,us, too much? I wish I could understand what went through your head, while you were cutting your wrists. I wished I had arrived our home a bit earlier. But again, I had to get caught up at work and Artie at his work. Was that why? Because we did not give you enough attention? Oh my love, I beg your forgiveness. I wish I had known earlier. I would be there for you, every second, minute, hour and days of your life. I hope things went well down on Earth, or that I at least made you be proud of your survivor husband. Ahh, I think so much of our earlier life, of our experience, together. Those times were definitely the hardest, weren't they? I hope you don't think your life with me was worthless.

Tak bardzo cię kocham
Vladek Spiegelman

Director of Discussions for the day !

Here are some questions that I came up with, when reading the book.

->Why do you think Anja killed herself without any notes?

->Why do you think spiegelman wrote the book as a comic book?

->Why did Spiegelman call the book Maus?

->During the Holocaust, why do you think the Germans had their house face to the concentration camps?

->Did Vladek get grouchy because of his experiences as a Jew?

->If Anja was alive, do you think she would appreciate this book?

-> If Anja was alive, do you think Vladek would be as grouchy as he used to be?

->Do you feel that the Germans are tired of having Holocaust stories told ?

->How many people in Germany have read this you, you think?

->Do you think Vladek's memories are reliable ?

->Why did Vladek married Mala?

->Why do you think Vladek's marriege with Mala wasn't successful?

->Do you think Art would have survived the Holocaust?

->What do you think Art would have done differently at the Holocaust than his father did?

Before and After.

Ahh, a brand new unit, a brand new book and a brand new blog. I can already feel the excitement of these new posts.
The new unit is called Revolt. The new book is called Maus. The new blog is called Book with drawings. For this first post me, Helena, will talk about what I had thought of the book before finishing the first part, and what I think of the book after finishing the first part.
The book is about a survivor of one of the biggest genocides in history. The holocaust. The survivor tell his son, the author, about his experience during a difficult time. How many friends he had lost, how many hiding places he had to go to, how many tears he had shed.
I personally try not to read books like this one because I catch myself thinking too much about it. I get extremely unfocused of the purpose of the book, by bringing myself to live at that certain time. And I also try not to read comic books. I usually get caught up trying to figure out more about the setting than what the person/ object is talking or doing. The book has its levels of diversity in which it makes the reading fun and unique.
After finishing the first part of Maus I got excited to do a project about the book. Of course, ideas are just floating around my head but I know that I want to do something that I can see and feel what the Jews went through.
I am looking forward to finish the second part of the book and to know what happened furthermore to the author's parents.