Reviews of Maus, I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History:
4-5/5 stars was the average rating of the powerful graphic novel Maus. Readers were able to connect with the Father in many instances and found his story of survival quite inspiring. In general, there were some mixed emotions from readers and critics with regards to the use of animals to portray the Jews, Nazis, Poles, and Americans. Some people found this to be a brilliant tactic while other’s thought it was unfair to call the Jews mice, the Nazis cats and the Poles pigs. Overall, I tend to agree with the former. I discovered through reading the book that the use of these animals allowed me to connect deeper with the characters and it made every horrific scene and every great escape that much more interesting. It also made the pictures throughout the graphic novel a little bit more bearable, because all in all at the heart of this story are some very horrific ordeals.
Beale, Alicia. (2010, May 20). Review of Maus I. Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15196.Maus_I. Beale’s review provides useful insights into the overall reception of Maus I. In particular it presents an opinion with regards to the use of animals to portray the Jews, Nazis and so on using direct quotes from Spiegleman’s work.
BY: JACQUELINE RIZEK
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