Spiegelman

close analysis of one image
where's your head at after the discussion and what's one idea you want to explore


After the discussion, I find myself emotionally... jumbled. Since I was younger I have heard stories of the Holocaust. Of the brutal genocide that murdered thousands of people, but it always seemed very far away. A story that was so far in the past that it in no way would affect the society in which I lived in. I think this was because whenever someone would talk to me about this they made it seemed very official and complicated, but Spiegelman discussed it in a way that I can look at it on a different level. He stripped away many of the strenuous details and just left the facts that were needed to convey the pain inflicted upon the people in concentration camps... While I was reading the story, I was grateful for the easy read, but during the discussion I got kind of angry that Spiegelman was talking about the Holocaust so nonchalantly. It was nice to have the bare necessities of the story because it definitely helped me view it in an easier way, but I don't think it really did the story of the Holocaust justice. During the discussion I felt like i just couldn't word what I was trying to say because I am not sure how I feel about the style of Spiegelman's writing. None of the wording was very difficult, and sometimes i think that the pictures were more affective than the words.