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.