After reading the first part of Maus II the idea of how Artie really feels inadequate to his father really comes into play towards the begginning of the story. He describes how he never looked up to his father and rather saw him more as a burden, that caused him to feel like he would never be quite good enough. I have trouble putting myself in Artie's shoes on this one because all the people I have been around my entire life have been so supportive in leeting me do whatever I want and feel would be good. I think it would so hard going through your life always having to compare your accomplishments with the accomplishments of your father. When in reality you can never really live up to such a task as surviving the holocaust. Because of this the best advice I think Artie could recieve from anyone is to do the best he can with the time he is given.
Another thing that was interesting about this selection from the book, was how you really get a taste of how awful it really was. When they discuss toward the end of the reading how the Jews were killed it is almost too much for one to process. How they could ever do such cruel things to humans is beyond me. The part that stands clearly in my mind is how they would burn them alive in their graves and then use the fat from the recently killed jews to fuel the fire for the next bunch.
One criticism about this selection would be that I felt like I was always waiting for them to get back to the story of auschwitz and stop talking about what was going on in the here and now. Whether this means that I was just really interested in the actual history part of the book, or if the information about artie and his father's relationship is just fluff I am not sure. Although I can say that it does give the story some credibility to be coming from a real life source, with which you can somewhat relate to.
Monday, February 18, 2008
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Yes, it was really awful in Auschwitz...it was pretty disgusting in the matter of what kind of mentality that the Nazis had in killing the Jews. One graphic part that really stuck out to me was when Vladek had to urinate when he had typhus and he had to do it on dead "slippery" bodies lying on the floor.
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