Week 7: Maus

As stated on the class page, the first graphic novel, "My Father Bleed's History",  was put on my reading list for the ninth grade as well as the Romeo x Juliet novel. When I found out that they were graphic novels, I was a bit confused, so I double checked with an associate in the store and those were surely what I needed. For me just words gets really boring and comics make things more graphic and bring more life to the story rather than just my imagination and interpretation. It helped give me a better understand and visual of the holocaust. Plus, being a comic, it got my attention and really pulled me into it more than it would've reading a regular site about it on the internet or a plain chapter book. In the second book, I liked how the author went back and forth between his conversation with his dad as well as the story he was being told, as well as illustrating both. In this book, he tells about how the first one came about and all of the press and interviews about it and he includes insight from another Jew that was at the concentration camp as well. It's like this one is the story more indepth as well as a behid the scenes look. I enjoyed reading both books.