The Genocide is a very dark time in world history. This comic somehow shows a side that is kid friendly and easy to read. The things that made this story is the comic aspect, the improper language usage, and how the story is easy to read and could be a children's story.

Mr. Spigelman captures so much in this short story comic. The visual of a comic change the aspect of the story so much. The animals used in the story were very unusual and do not really look like any animals that actually exist. It is almost like he tried to capture how the people were feeling and transformed them into who the Germans were seeing the Jews as. In most stories one tries to visualize exactly what the author is saying and in this story he gives us a visual and it is very far from what most people would imagine when just reading the text of this story. The comic shows the true emotion of the story by the tone and the expressions of the characters in the story. A comic reads differently than a regular short story. You just read the words, left to right on the page until you get to the bottom then go to the next. A comic you read left to right panel to panel reading the narrator's or main characters words, then you have to read each character in that panels dialog bubbles. It lets one know who's talking without have to read Carla said, or bob said, there is just so much more involvement and a much better reading experience than a plain old story. The imagery given to us the comic changes the way you read the whole story because one can almost feel exactly what each character feels in his story because we can see exactly what is happening. Without the comic this story would not be anywhere to as interesting as it is now. Another thing that draws you into this story and makes you feel like you were right there when it happened is the language used inside of this comic.

How Mr. Spigelman uses the language in this comic is genius. He makes mistakes in the text on purpose to show that the person who is telling the story is foreign and doesn't know exact and formal English. Valdek the storyteller says "When we were everybody inside " (Spigelman, 138) The language is something that someone must read twice to fully understand what Valdek truly means but it gives one a good impression what his accent sounds like to someone whose first language is English. After reading some of the miscues in the text one may start to see the comic different than they were before because one may start to see themselves actually inside of the story by seeing exactly what happened and hearing exactly the way the people spoke then. The language pulls this whole story together and makes it more than just a story or a comic .It makes it an experience like one is inside the story seeing what actually happened in real time, one can see Valdek sitting in his rocking chair then starting the story and it is almost like one is put into the story but just being able to watch. One can hear and see everything but they cannot interact because they are amazed in what is happening and how real this story is in the tone and speech coming from Valdek. The final aspect of this story that makes it all come to life is how child friendly this story is through the speech and the comic.

The cartoonish feel of these creatures are very appealing and makes one want to learn more about them. The title of this story "Maus" translates to Mouse in English. This shows in the comic that the animals slightly resemble a mouse but not enough to know that is exactly what the animal is supposed to be. The characters in this story are meant to remain a mystery in this story to show how they really feel and what the Germans see the Jews as. The cartoonish feel to a child in this story must be very welcoming and draw in a child because when seeing a cartoon children are usually introduced to nice and happy characters. The text inside of this story is not complicated and hard to understand so a child could most defiantly enjoy this story. The comic feel to this story will also draw children into this story. Most of the time when seeing a cartoonish story the ending is usually funny so some children may dive right into this story expecting that and may read the whole story through and have no idea what they have read. The children who like to read and thoroughly enjoy picture books will like this story. They will be amazed and confused about the imagery given by Mr. Spigelman and will hopefully want to look back and try to catch every detail he put into the comics to show all of the emotion behind Valdek's story. Reading this story slow and carefully one will find a lot of things inside of the text and inside of the details in each comic panel.

Everything inside of this story has one hoked from the beginning. The storytelling feel brings back some peoples childhood of where their grandparents told vast and amazing stories sitting upon their rocking chair. The imagery from each panel going along with the story that gives you a visual representation of exactly what is going on the whole story. Valdek's language and how differently he says things that may not be grammatically correct because he is foreign. The cartoonish feel of the comic brings back memories of one's childhood where they used to read the carton comic strips out of the paper. The history being told about a terrible time in history is being told here and this is a story not only about that time in history but how a family survived through this time. Some staying together and making it through the worst just to be able to have the best life possible for the rest of the family. All of this is told in a short few pages and is a whole different aspect when joined with a comic that can rapture almost every detail one can imagine about this story and what the family had to be going through.

