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Even though they are depressing and soul-crushing, I guess I'm also just trying to understand how people can do such horrible things.īut I digress. Now I'm an adult and I often read books about atrocities around the world. When I asked her why she was so fascinated by that period, she said she was trying to understand how something like the Holocaust could have happened. My ancestors are from Germany and my mother was a WWII buff - our bookshelves at home were filled with hundreds of books about that war. I was deeply moved by Spiegelman's story about his father's experiences in Poland and Auschwitz during World War II.

The Maus books were just as incredible as promised.

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If you are a member of scribe there is a pdf that can be downloaded. They have proposed this after more than twenty years onto the bestsellers list. This world is already bereft of understanding, empathy and sympathy, kindness. What are these parents afraid of? I could offer my opinion, but won't. I don't agree with book banning in any way shape or form. Video games, Facebook, snap chat to name a few. Eighth graders are already exposed to many worse things than this horrific historical event. I've had seven children, now grown, and would have no problem with them reading this book. Less so because of the figures used and the form in which it is told.Ī school in Tennessee seems to be banning this book that is on the eighth grade list. It is a different and maybe a little less harrowing way to show the many abuses of the Holocaust. In the story the father, portrayed as a mouse, is telling his painful story to his son, who happens to be a graphic artist. This is a book that is based on this Pulitzer prize winners own father. I've probably only ever read five or six, but if a book is going to be banned, I'm going to read it to find out why. I'm not a graphic novel reader for the most part. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Because resistance and rebellion have become impossible.

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The crazy and disturbing thing is that it would mean imprisonment or even death for the artists creating such works in many countries that are still developing or already full scale dictatorships, with advanced surveillance technologies making the police states seem too perfectly developed to ever fall. Especially adapted to one country and its history, the Maus concept would have immense potential for opening minds and maybe even something like redemption and a real reappraisal of history besides political correct drivel, bigotry, and empty promises. Impossible and unthinkable in Europe after WW2, but in the bible belt, it´s totally fine more than 150 years after the American civil war.Įven more disturbing is the 20th century history of Russia and China with numbers between dozens of millions up to 100 million people killed per country. Let´s say removing statues and street names of mass murderers in the US, just imagine this in Germany with nazi leaders and the swastika instead of slave trading warmongerers and the confederate flag. There have been other genocides in colonial history without numbers of the people killed, starved to death, or infected with plagues and no real interest in redemption by giving back land to Native Americans of both Americas or historical revisionism. It could be used for visualizing other atrocities too Each page screams out the terror, the underlying themes are the sickest possible for even the most murderous apes on the planet, and one will never forget the associations between the pictures and reality itself. Much more memorable that way than in general anti war productionsīecause people are used to war movies, games, satires, pictures, etc., which creates a kind of habituation effect and deadening, but this is something different and more tangible. But the impact and mind blowing factor are amazing, because it´s It´s just too hardcore, by using anthropomorphized animals and the art of painting, it gets even worse and kind of more graphic. It's petty and art is free, but some nations might not find it that great to be associated with certain animals.ĭefinitively nothing for kids or even some adults Not just because it would have been ideal to show that they´re all the same, just different, let's say with dogs or cats and many breeds, but because it´s just an unnecessary point of criticism that could have easily been avoided. It´s still a great work, but maybe all the same animals of one species would have been an even better choice. Using animals for certain nations is a balancing act A way to deal with the unspeakable that makes it even more disturbing and weird.

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