For my article I found one that I thought was really interesting because it is an entire page of just facts about the holocaust. I also thought it was really interesting because Art Spiegelman was really like scared the whole time in the book, because he wants to make sure that the “story” of the holocaust doesn’t water down the real events of the holocaust. When I read an article like the one I choose I fell like it waters it down so much because its just like fact after fact after fact and it almost makes me feel like I’m studying for school. I really don’t care about what the article says because the facts are just sentences that have no meaning behind them. For example when I read “state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire”. Its like those are just words on a page and they have no really meaning, or even if they do have more meaning for you, I can obviously never portray the depth of the tragedy of the holocaust. So I think that people think that when Art Spiegelman cuts in and out of the story and makes sure for a fact that you know its just a story I think that is exactly what needs to happen because then when you read Mause you can see the pictures and you get the reminders that its just a story so its like you can put at least a little meaning behind the facts and also you keep in mind that its just a story so in the back of your head you know that it was even worse then the horrors expressed in the book. So I think that the way Art Spiegelman did Mause was perfect.
