I've just finished reading the first half of Maus and I really enjoy it so far. It's so different from all the other books I've read about the Holocaust. A lot of the events that have happened in Maus are things that I have read before like the Jews having their businesses taken away from them and the various things that happened inside the ghettos. However Maus gives a new twist on all of these things. The reader is seeing these events through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor. The fact that Artie is interviewing his dad and that the story switches back and forth between past and present shows a kind of connection between this event that happened in the past with where we are today. This is something I haven't seen in any other book about the Holocaust.
    I really enjoy Spiegleman's style of writing. It seems like he wrote down exactly how his father told the story because the things his father says aren't always grammatically correct and sometimes the word order is wrong. It shows that English wasn't his father's native language and it makes it feel like you are actually at this interview.
    I find it interesting that he chose to draw animals instead of people. Even though he used animals I don't think it takes away from story or that it makes it seem less real or less serious of a historical event. It makes sense that he used mice to represent the Jews since mice are commonly chased out of houses because people don't want them there just like in history the Jews have been chased out of different areas because people didn't want them there.