Okay, so I’m so sorry that this blog is so late, but honestly I’ve just been procrastinating all break. Anyway its 12:08 AM Monday morning and here I go…
So now that I’m done with the book and the essay I guess I have a lot to say for this Maus thesis blog. When I finally read the book (which was a few days ago) I really enjoyed. I was reading while in the waiting room at my doctor’s office and I couldn’t put it down. The secretary’s probably though I was a super nerd or something. Anyway, I thought the book was really interesting and easy to read. I think that one of the main reasons why I liked it so much was that it was in a comic book type of style. The graphic novel allow me to visualize the events being described which made it a lot easier for me not to put the book down.
Also with the help from reading the informative comics by Scott McCloud in class, it helped me understand why animal caricatures were used instead of humans with facial features. This now leads into my essay thesis ideas. When I was brainstorming my essay (which by the way took forever) I though a lot about how Art Spiegelman uses people with animal faces as his characters. Along with that I thought about why he chose to use a graphic novel to talk about an event that is so serious and important as the Holocaust. At first I had no idea why he would chose a type of novel that is somewhat childish to portray a critical part of history. Then after a while I decided on the thesis idea that even though the graphic novel may be childish, Spiegelman is attempting to explain such an important part of history in a simple way where it would be easy for readers to understand. The Holocaust is a very large part of history and yet it is difficult to explain and understand. Therefore, I decided to go with this essay topic.
Anyway, there you go and once again sorry for the lateness Dominguez. =]
So now that I’m done with the book and the essay I guess I have a lot to say for this Maus thesis blog. When I finally read the book (which was a few days ago) I really enjoyed. I was reading while in the waiting room at my doctor’s office and I couldn’t put it down. The secretary’s probably though I was a super nerd or something. Anyway, I thought the book was really interesting and easy to read. I think that one of the main reasons why I liked it so much was that it was in a comic book type of style. The graphic novel allow me to visualize the events being described which made it a lot easier for me not to put the book down.
Also with the help from reading the informative comics by Scott McCloud in class, it helped me understand why animal caricatures were used instead of humans with facial features. This now leads into my essay thesis ideas. When I was brainstorming my essay (which by the way took forever) I though a lot about how Art Spiegelman uses people with animal faces as his characters. Along with that I thought about why he chose to use a graphic novel to talk about an event that is so serious and important as the Holocaust. At first I had no idea why he would chose a type of novel that is somewhat childish to portray a critical part of history. Then after a while I decided on the thesis idea that even though the graphic novel may be childish, Spiegelman is attempting to explain such an important part of history in a simple way where it would be easy for readers to understand. The Holocaust is a very large part of history and yet it is difficult to explain and understand. Therefore, I decided to go with this essay topic.
Anyway, there you go and once again sorry for the lateness Dominguez. =]
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