Maus

Ok, so I'm not totally sure about what I could write for my essay. I could talk about point of view and how the story is really limited because its only the father's view of it. Artie doesn't really ask anyone else their story and he doesn't find his mother's diaries because the father burned them. The father was pretty well of in the camps. He had a job and was able to survive. Also, this could just be me but I find that the father acted totally different when he was young and in the camp than when he was older and remarried. Yes, you should cherish things and not waste thing but when he's older, he is really crazy. I read the first book, Maus 1, because I was curious. It was really good and I could use some of that in the essay. McCloud was very interesting. Especially the part about how letters are just pictures that form words. The are separate and together tell something. Just like comic books. Separate, they don't make sense, or they are really brief (like Family Circus) but put several of them together, they tell a story like Maus does. Also I see a postmodern them in the book.... like so many. There is no absolute truth. You can't get the whole story to something. Artie tries but there are still holes in his story. Its always going to be limited. The father experience one camp. But how were the others? How were germans who sympathized with jews treated? Were there any other people discriminated besides Jews? So thats what I got out of the book. Thanks for reading.