Maus Week 7

I liked how the story was separated into two different timelines with the main character being a self-centered mouse that had little regard for his father’s feelings.  But after listening to the stories about World War II, it made the main character more sympathetic to his father and his hardships.  Maus made me remember about the World War II movies I watch where there are Nazi officers patrolling the houses and the tension they bring with them. It literally would show you want the Nazis did to drag would be prisoners to their doom and how people thought about the situation which was almost often miscalculated. 

I also liked how it would show their daily lives as this looming doom approaches them. I think the reason why the author decided to use mice to play the roles of the characters in the comic is to make the comic more digestible and less scary. I say this because the experience people had during the Nazi regime like the holocaust can be too much. I think another reason may be that humans are in some ways like mouse and rats. Both of us reproduce a lot and are social animals and by switching the two species, nothing has really changed much other than perspective.