Dear, Art Spiegelman
I was at my school in my language arts class wondering what book I should read next. I asked my teacher and she said there is a great book on my bookshelf. It is a graphic novel and it’s about WWII. At the time, I had no idea what a graphic novel was and why was she recommending a picture book to me when I’m in eighth grade. The book is called Maus.
I found it and started to read it. When I got into it I realized it wasn’t a picture book that I was thinking about in my head. The beginning reminded me of the time I had to do a report for social studies and I had to record my great grandma and her amazing holocaust survivor story. The son mouse in the book wanted to record in a journal the grandfather's (Vladek Spiegelman) …show more content…
She was forced to work on a farm because she was polish. She worked on this farm doing field work, milking cows, and just in general farm work. Before that she lived a pretty normal life, but the sad part was she was poor. She told me that she worked on the farm for about a year and a half. She was ordered to be sent to a concentration camp in poland, but she escaped and went back to the farm. She went back and started work again. That day when she went back she told me vividly. She heard the rumble of b-17 bombers and p-51 mustang fighters flying over. (U.S. planes). She told me that when they flew over and drum fell and landed on the ground right in front of her. She told me that story and I wanted to know what the drum was. My dad told me that p-51 mustangs carried those on their wings. They were spare fuel tanks. They would drop them when they went into battle because it was just extra weight. They couldn’t maneuver as well with them. She told me that she started realize america was coming to fight. She left the farm and met a guy named tott that was my great grandpa. They had kids and road a boat across the atlantic to america and they all grew up in the city of
I was at my school in my language arts class wondering what book I should read next. I asked my teacher and she said there is a great book on my bookshelf. It is a graphic novel and it’s about WWII. At the time, I had no idea what a graphic novel was and why was she recommending a picture book to me when I’m in eighth grade. The book is called Maus.
I found it and started to read it. When I got into it I realized it wasn’t a picture book that I was thinking about in my head. The beginning reminded me of the time I had to do a report for social studies and I had to record my great grandma and her amazing holocaust survivor story. The son mouse in the book wanted to record in a journal the grandfather's (Vladek Spiegelman) …show more content…
She was forced to work on a farm because she was polish. She worked on this farm doing field work, milking cows, and just in general farm work. Before that she lived a pretty normal life, but the sad part was she was poor. She told me that she worked on the farm for about a year and a half. She was ordered to be sent to a concentration camp in poland, but she escaped and went back to the farm. She went back and started work again. That day when she went back she told me vividly. She heard the rumble of b-17 bombers and p-51 mustang fighters flying over. (U.S. planes). She told me that when they flew over and drum fell and landed on the ground right in front of her. She told me that story and I wanted to know what the drum was. My dad told me that p-51 mustangs carried those on their wings. They were spare fuel tanks. They would drop them when they went into battle because it was just extra weight. They couldn’t maneuver as well with them. She told me that she started realize america was coming to fight. She left the farm and met a guy named tott that was my great grandpa. They had kids and road a boat across the atlantic to america and they all grew up in the city of