The Autobiography Of Maus

Autobiography is an account of a person’s life told by him or herself. An autobiography tends to be a more general history and the author 's life.(citation) In Maus, it is talking about the relationship between the writer and his father. In the books which have large scale of talking about the history of his father in the Hitler century. Besides, the writer of Maus is using first and third person to present the life story of he and his father. It involved lots of personal feeling and subjective view of the writer. Moreover, the writer uses metaphor, symbolism, and allegory which the critics think that Maus may be fiction more than is an autobiography.(citation http://www.gradesaver.com/maus/study-guide/questions-of-genre-in-maus)

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I do think that each type of reading has its own writing rules, but the rules can modify by the time past though and the readers’ preference. In fact, the reader try to read autobiography is because they want to know the truth and the reality in that time. In addition, autobiography can be funny if it uses to write in a graphic way to represent. Maus is a graphic novel in which it is using a more relaxes way to present the horrible history. Using graphic can enhance our concentration on it and make it clearer picture of the situation in that time. We no need to guess the background of the story and can search it easily in the internet. In addition, the background and the detail pictures of the history were read out by the writer’s father and it can show that it is more reliable than the written ones. Having real situation and characters can raise sympathetic response to …show more content…
Learning from it can help us to build up a new insight to see things and bring critical thinking to us. It may let us reflect more about our lifestyle and bring new insight to us. The important thing that the autobiography can do is to narrow the gap between this generation to that generation. The writer of Maus use interview format to rewrite his father’s history to throughout this to tell us the relationship of them. In the interview, they always argue like the youngster and their parents. The reason that we always disagree with our parents is that we learn and experiences somethings different to them. We have not been hungry for several weeks, we need not to be a refugee and even need not to worry of the financial problem. Therefore, the parents think that this generation should stratify on it which has beautiful clothes, freedom of speech and enough food to