On a different train of thought, I think that Spieglam using cats and mice for his artwork is absolutely brilliant. While there have been other mass genocides just as tragic, such as the Rwandan genocide, none are as famous as the holocaust. Because of this, it is hard for people who live in a pretty peaceful country to understand what it was like to be Jewish. Something that most people can understand is the relationship between a cat and a mouse. By portraying the Nazis as cats and the Jewish people as mice, it is easier for people to understand the relationships of Nazis hunting the Jewish people.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Art of storytelling
While I don't think that Maus and The Things They Carried are similar books, I think that they are equally valuable. What one lacks in imagery, they make up for with actual art. Tim O'Brien uses a lot of the environment and foliage of Vietnam to have the reader feel apart of the story, and like they know what life is like. Similar to that, Art Spieglam uses the contrast of cat and mice to really give the reading a contemporary feeling of what it's like to be in their situation. So while they both are attempting to place the reader in the story, their methods are far different. I also think that O'Brien wrote his story collection in sort of a rant format, while Spieglam when into writing his graphic novel with full intentions of having illustrations
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Yeah, as I mentioned in my own blog post, I couldn't see any similarities between the two books, but I did enjoy the imagery of both nonetheless, and I never really took into consideration until now that the imagery of O'Brien's writing is almost vivid enough to compare to the actual imagery given to us by Speigleman. Also in agreement, I liked how all the races were represented as animals as well, it gave a lot of context on the levels of fear and dignity one race would view another through Speigleman's point of view. Nice blog 10/10
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