This novel talks about the fathers experiences throughout the Holocaust. This novel isn’t at all what I expected. What I was really expecting was a very wordy boring book that I would get tired of reading after the first 10 pages. In all honesty I thought this was very surprising to me when I had first opened it and after I opened it I was questioning myself on whether I grabbed the right book. To my surprise this was a comic/graphic novel style book. This is something that was way out of the normal compared to what I read and I was never really into comic books because I alway felt like it was very hard to concentrate when I read them due to the pictures.
When reading this book I found it very interesting how the author used animals as references towards people. For example jews being represented by mice, Germans as cats and Poles as pigs. This is something that I found very intriguing because I have never really seen an author do that. Throughout reading this story you can definitely tell Spiegelman uses his own experiences when writing this book especially through the pictures and the relationships with the characters and it’s almost as if you can tell there is something behind it.
While reading this book it talks about the experiences that Vladek goes through for example getting drafted into the polish army then getting captured by the Nazis as a prisoner of war. Including getting treated very poorly especially since he is jewish. He ended up finding his way back home but the factory he owned got seized by the Nazis. Then he and his wife Were able to hide for a while but then ended up getting caught and taken to Auschwitz. Overall I found this book very interesting but it isn’t really something I would read again.