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Haha...Hey guys. What, no blog earlier? No idea what you're talking about. Anyways, Maus II is just... I don't know. I don't know how to write about it at all, really. I mean, I read it, I got it, I thought it was a good book. Comic. No, comic book? Anyways, It doesn't really seem representable. Or, at least, I don't really see any way to really write anything about it. There are some things to be written about, I suppose, but is there enough to write about any of those bits? Probably, I just don't know how. Oh well. I'm thinking I'll write about the portrayal deal going on. There's basically Art saying how he doesn't really know how to portray everything, and how it is really impossible to accurately portray the Holocaust at all, because nothing really does it justice, well, I mean can accurately give a good representation of what it was like, and what happened. Even with his father, getting a first-hand account of what happened, it is just one viewpoint, one journey. Only that which he experienced. And every prisoner as a unique experience. Also, nothing is truly known. For instance, it was widely believed that there were orchestras at some point, but when asked, Art's father said he didn't think they existed, that he "remembered only marching, not orchestras." But Art's father, especially, had is own experiences that weren't shared with the others. He got special treatment for working, he got on the good side of some of the guards and whatnot. Really, one would need every viewpoint of all who were a part of the Holocaust, and even then there would ave to be some way to convey just how they felt, just what they heard, ect... He could have had is mother's story, had she been alive, but it still wouldn't have been enough. It is just not possible to give that horror accurate representation. This is why, at least I think, that Art uses the cartoon or comic medium for his book, to emphasize that it is not possible to have every detail, and to sow tat e is not trying to have all the knowledge, he is simply sharing what information he has in the way he feels is best. That's all. Sorry for typos and if it feels rushed, I wrote this on that write or die thing and if I stopped for like three seconds it would delete words. It was frightening. K byes.