Reflection #9 Maus

Comic:A comic book is a magazine or book containing the sequential art form of comics. Comic books are often called comics, especially in the U.K.. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous, nor does it refer to short comic strips (like Peanuts or Dilbert). In fact, the seriousness of the medium varies widely.
Holocaust:the killing of five to seven million of European Jews by the Nazi government during World War II. Sometimes used to refer to the total Nazi extermination program, which included Jews, Roma (aka Gypsies), Russians, Poles, other Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. totaling ten to fourteen million humans.
Maus is a very well known comic that talks about the holocaust and all the madness after it.It calls our attention not only because the holocaust was an important part in history,but the way they clasify the different types of people,for example the Jews were known as the maus,The Polish were known as the pigs,The Germans as the cats and the Americans as the dogs.In the novel Artie(one of the main characters)is writting about the holocaust and after it.Artie didn't have to suffer the holocaust,but his parents did and survived it.After the war,his mother suicide her self because she couldn't deal with the pain all the jews were put through during that time,Vladek having his son and wife dead burned all her memories which made Artie evry mad,because he wanted to understand what she was going through.But I guess his dad had also gone mad with the war and what not,loosing everything because of the war.
I have been studying the Holocaust for years and I'm very much interested in it,but I never though there was a comic about it.The way the jews are shown as mice called my attention at first.I had already known about the jewish peoples struggle to survive,which wasn't a new thing to me,but every story is different,every struggle is different as well and that's what MAUS is all about.