Reflection #10: Blogging Experience

The first day of class, when the professor talked about blogging, I thought it would spend a lot of time but after I made the first blog I knew it would not be as difficult as I expected. Later I understood that it would be a great idea because it pushes you to criticize, analyze, discuss and also offer different point of view about the class works and as a result, better understanding about literature. The idea of leaving comments on other people’s blog was also great because it force you to read other people’s blog, analyze their points of view and their reactions about the readings and compare them to yours. Not only it helps to understand in a more attractive and funny way but also it helps you to relate with other people and friends through different class sections. The most interesting part of the blogging experience is that it is very different and more enjoyable than bringing journals to the class because the journals have a due date contrary to blogging that you have significant and enough time to do also adding that you can edit it at any moment and fix your work. With this I mean that blogging is, for me, a new, interesting, enjoyable and better way to express your thought and opinions about the short stories, novels, comics and drama that had been read on class and is not the same boring, standard and old school way to make an English class.

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.