I read this book in my senior english class ( I was blessed to have a teacher who looked outside the recommended reading list). Here I am 4 years later and I find both Maus 1 & 2 on my bookshelf. I can't say that I've read another graphic novel before or one since, however I loved everything about Maus. I understand most of the 2 and 1 star ratings come from the depiction of Poles are Pigs. While I can understand that ( I am 100% polish myself) I think people we are overlooking the fact that the book is written from the point of view of Art's father and it's about the events and people he came across. Art obviously did not write about the Polish people as a race in general but as the individuals his father met in his life. Also, he writes about the kind Poles, such as the governess that took care of Vladek's first son. To enjoy the book you need to look at it for what it is; a beautifully illustrated depiction of a man's journey through the Holocaust. Yes maybe some of the poles are made to seem to be on the Nazi side, but we can't say people like that didn't exist...they did what they had to, to survive. Sure, Maus may be seen as a little biased - it's not a history book, but a book written by a son from stories his father had told him. If Art wrote it so it wouldn't offend anyone, not only would it lose that something special that made me love it, but it couldn't be called a true story.Get more detail about The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1).
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