Remember when I read "The City of Falling Angeles" and I claimed that it was the best book I read? Well, I read Maus and now it's the best book I have read so far.
Did you know that Maus is the German word for mouse? That is how the Germans viewed the Jews back then – as mice. This book was based on the Holocaust, a bad time for Jewish people who lived in Europe. There are two volumes and I am going to break down and summarize each one. Part One In part one, it starts with the normal life of a family of Jewish Mice. I know this sounds weird, bear with me. The Nazis are cats in the story. Is this a Tom and Jerry reference? Kind of. Coming back, the family were living their best lives during the Holocaust. However, there was a problem. They are Jewish and the Nazis hated the Jews. If you didn’t know, the Nazis put Jews in concentration camps. Concentration camps were no ordinary camps. The Nazis would not feed the Jews, they would put the Jews in gas chambers and kill them. After that, the Nazis would carry their bodies and put them in burning ovens. Other times they would put the Jews against the wall and shoot them. Most of the Jews in these camps would die of either hunger or disease. At the end of the story, the Jewish family of mice, ends up in the worst concentration camp. The family lived in these small houses called ghettos. The Nazis put a lot of Jewish families in ghettos so it would be easier to transport them to concentration camps and because they knew where the ghettos were located. Part Two In this series it was life or death. That is the theme of the whole story. The theme of the story can also be said to be a survivor's tale. In part one, we already know that the family of mice is in a concentration camp. They are in Auschwitz. Auschwitz was one of the most well-known concentration camps and one of the most dangerous camps. The family of mice had to do everything they could in order to escape without getting killed. Not only that, they also had to find a safe place for them to hide until everything with Hitler (the leader of the Nazi party) was all cleared. The theme of the story is that it is a survivor's tale. The author who wrote this story said this was a story that his father told him. Yes, this might be in a cartoon, comic, or graphic novel strip, but the events happened to his father and the author tells us that there is a special message behind this story.
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AuthorMy name is Michael Duarte. I am 15 years old. I am a student. I am a soccer player. I enjoy sports. I love to play and watch different kinds of sports. I am also getting in the habit of reading. CategoriesArchives
June 2021
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