Maus...

Wow, so I was so shocked when I sat down to read the first page of the book and I realize that it was in a comic book format! As I continued reading, I started to wonder why Spiegelman decided to do write the book this way and what message he was trying to send to the reader. I was intrigued by his use of animals to depict the different characters in the book because the roles make sense. I'm still a little confused about using frogs to represent the French and reideer to represent the Swedish. Maybe it didn't have any real importance.