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4.61 AVERAGE
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Vladek's Holocaust experience was no less devastating given that the characters were portrayed as animals. It is amazing how much humans can endure and the variety of coping strategies we use to survive trauma. Yet, even knowing why someone behaves the way they do doesn't make it easier to live with their foibles as a family member. Nor can anyone really understand their lived Holocaust experience. Hearing and reading their stories is not easy but necessary to hopefully prevent anything like it from happening again.
I really love comics as a medium for exploring historical and current events. Especially for an event as traumatic and grotesque as the holocaust- this medium is perfect because it would be excruciating to use real images for those types scenes. The tension between Art and Vladeck is very heartbreaking. Throughout the whole book, I thought a lot about what it must feel like to survive all of that and then to be as alone as Vladeck was. Or the constant guilt and depression Art must feel about his strained relationship with his father. I’m really glad with the book ending at the moment that Vladeck and Anja reunited- it was sort of a happy ending even through we know that things aren’t really happy for Vladeck or Art at the real time that they were recording. I really liked the book because I loved Art and his father’s gritty realism about the war and about their current relationship status.
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not much else to say. it’s Maus.
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I read this as part of a summer reading challenge. And my first thought was to wonder why I hadn't read it earlier. I read it in a single evening and could not put it down. But I did then want to return to it again. It's incredibly moving, and I am so appreciative of the nuance and authenticity. It doesn't flinch from honesty. And we need to have these to remind ourselves and each other of the past.
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This needs to be required reading.
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The look of it is simple, but manages to convey emotion pretty well. I loved the family drama aspects of it and tracing current tensions to Vladek's past.
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challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced