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At first, I thought this book was going to be another history book with some images. However, after I started reading, I began to enjoy it a lot and I ended up having a lot of fun reading this book. It has been a long time since I’ve read a graphic novel, and it was refreshing to read one again. Originally, I didn’t think much about to because like many others, I believed I had outgrown comics. Yet this book definitely changed my perspective, this book had countless deep meanings, and told a tragic story about the holocaust. I never really learned much about the holocaust and the toll it took on people, so a book with detailed images helped me get a good grasp on the atrocities Germany committed. Spiegelman did a great job in conveying Vladek’s detailed backstory as he trudges through tragic events in the holocaust barely scraping through each day. Every single battle he fights, whether it be physiological, mental, physical, all seem so real, even though he portrays everybody as animals we can clearly see how human they actually are. Spiegelman also subtly teaches us about modern effects of the holocaust, by showing how the effects still linger in the lives of Jews.  The amount of detail that went into this book blow me away, and this is a perfect book to remove the stigma that comic books are meant for kids. This might be my favorite book vie had to read for school, for once I actually didn’t mind going home and having to read a couple chapters.

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  1. ArjunDecember 9, 2023 at 6:59 PM

    I like how you analyzed the drawings in the book and not just the story itself.

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