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I just finished reading Maus 1 and Maus 2 yesterday. I found that after reading 1 I had to read 2. The first book just leaves you hanging in the middle of the story and I wanted to find out how the story ends. I found this to be a moving story that not only deals with the holocaust but it also deals with war and how people survive during this kind setting that is oppressive and can be abusive. On page 54 of book one the sentences that I'm using for my sentence collection are "I'm not going to die, and I won't die here! I want to be treated like a human being!" As I reflect on these statements my thoughts wander to the current war and the pictures of the Iraqi men in very vulnerable and humiliating positions as the American soldiers just look on. I imagine and wonder if this sentence taken from Maus is what the Iraqi men in the photos may feel among other things and why was the rest of the world shown these pictures before the American public even knew about them? I can answer that question but it's not the direction that I want to take this blog. I can believe that this happened yet I seem to place myself in the shoes of the victim to try and understand what it must be like for them in the oppressive situation that they are dealing with. I have had to deal with my own oppressive situation growing up at home which is what makes it easy for me to immediately try to understand what these people are going through. Yet I don't know fully as I have never had several people place me in a position so humiliating as those American soldiers placed the Iraqi men in. What also scares me is that there are women and children in that prison. How many rapes have happened to them? I was talking with Mr. Lovas about this today and he said that the Coalition is sweeping up all kinds of people and it's just the luck of the draw if you are in that sweep. This is exactly what is happening in the Maus books. The Jews were being swept up including the women and the children. What I'm left with in looking at this is just a great deep sadness that the process of what Hitler was doing to the Jews may be what we are doing to the Iraqi's excluding the gas chamber. It's just a thought...
Posted by Adriana Worley on 5/10/04; 3:21:59 PM
from the dept.
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