Reflection # 9: Maus

At first I thought it would be more of the same but, after I started to read it, an intense desire to continue reading it and never stop came to me. Surely it was because of the intense violence and suspense that Maus contains and also the crude description of the situation. One of the most interesting things of the comic is how the characters are indentified, for example, the Germans are known as cats, Poland are known as pigs and the Jews are called rats. The language is crude, and obviously irritant in the way the people, most of them Jews, are treated. One of the most amazing things of the comic is when Vladek do everything to find his wife and stay near her. He threw her a piece of bread and when the guards see it he started to chase her in order to punish her for interchanging food. Also it is incredible the part when the author describes how the Germans give food to the Jews using flavored water, instead of soap, and small pieces of sausage. It’s amazing how the author mix love, desperation, suspense, violence and racism in a very crude, dramatic and interesting way. What result incredible is that this really happened and the story is based on a true story that the author decided to reveal it in a very interesting way, by a comic book.