The Muffled Terror

             In the book, "Maus I: My Father Bleeds History," Art Spiegelman tells the story of all the horrible things his father and the rest of the Jews had to go through during the Holocaust. It is drawn with cartoon animals to make things less brutal because a few of the stories included are cruel and otherwise would feel a lot more gruesome to the reader. The way Spiegelman wrote the book was interesting because it is based on real events told by his father but he also makes the story a bit of a fiction book. Spiegelman uses a bunch of different ways to make the story more suitable for younger people and not as terrible.
             One technique Spiegelman uses to make the points of the Holocaust more soft is not using specific brutal words to describe things that happened. For example on pg.33, "and no one heard from him again." Here is when the narrating at the bottom is talking about a guy that the Nazis beat to death yet the author made the words a lot sweeter so that people could read the story without being completely hit with terrible facts. Another way the events his father told him about are less cruel is by making it a cartoon of animals. Even though you still know what is going on and see drawings of some of it, it makes it a lot less violent uses mice and cats instead of humans. It is amazing that Spiegelman was able to design the book this way so that it is enjoyable to learn about and also very fascinating by keeping the facts of the Holocaust straight.
             I am glad to be able to read this book as a kid to gain a lot of knowledge of this terrible historic event and not be to overwhelmed with hard writing or scary things happening. To start reading the book again is very great because a lot of things that are written in the book become a lot clearer and I get a better picture of how Spiegelman chose to write the stories. Hopefully things like this never happen again because they are terrible and ruin so many lives and families. Despite this kind of thing not currently going on things like dictatorship and bad power go on today and are quite a bit like the Holocaust. Maybe overtime people will show power up against this and it will not have to continue to ruin peoples' lives.