Maus Reading

First and foremost, I am not a person who likes to read, but I enjoyed reading Maus as I kept on flipping page after page to see what came next. I did not understand the full extent to which Art Spiegelman depicted the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats, and maybe not two different types of animals where the Nazis were the predators. I finally realized that it was through the acts of hiding in shelters by the Jews that make the perfect analogy for being depicted as mice. The Nazis would always try to draw the Jews out into traps by telling the Jews that the elderly will be taken into "special" housing because the Nazis cared for them. I could see now that Nazis depicted as cats is the perfect idea. I also liked the structure in which Spiegelman tells the story. There is an oscillation between comic relief and the tension in Vladek's story. I felt as if this tension and release structure created a desire for me to read the whole story. I have not started Maus II, but I am sure it will be just as great.