Response to first part of Mause 2

I feel the first part of the book was very interesting. I felt that the separating of animals such as the polish were pigs, the Nazis were guards and the jews were mice spoke in many senses. This brilliant writing metaphorically shows the feeling of the era as well as shows how people were looked upon. I feel the going from mice to men wearing mice mask showed that going to the holocaust made them the lowest part of the chain and almost something un human as they were looked upon as. I felt the mask later in the story showed that the jewish people could not forget or be separated from the experience that had once happened to them. I also found it was quite interesting that their was help for knowledge in the fact that the polish guard wanted to learn english which gave the jew new and nicer things in return. Though in this world of a concentration camp everyone was enemies, everybody wanted the same things which is knowledge and freedom and even friendship, even though it was racism that stood in the way of all of these. This book is quite interesting in the fact that all sides of races are somewhat shown except for the nazi, which are made to somewhat monsters when in reality were in a way, when killing millions of jews. The documentation that the lead character Art is documenting is showing that by being stressed, that the situation that had once happened will never leave him or his mind. The horror is being brought back by documenting what happened which is frightening to him physiologically yet necessary for history and for people to know what eventually happened and the torture and the inhumanness that people had to endure during this time period and even somewhat after.  This book is only getting more interesting and so far the comics paint a very clear and frightening picture of what happened to these people and how they were effected and how they dealt with their situation that at the time was impossible to avoid. Incredible metaphoric writing in what the book shows and overall is an interesting intelligently wrote read.