Maus II Thoughts

Okay, Maus. I have to say this book was probably my favorite so far. It had a deeper connection; and I like the idea of using postmodernism ideals to analyze something in the past like the holocaust. Usually we talk about postmodernism like it has only started maybe 20 years ago and is still going strong, but I like trying to relate it to a very significant event that happened before "Postmodern" times. Maybe I will follow that as a thesis. I would really like to analyze the conditions of the camp and how the survival through such an event messed with the psychological state of the survivors. I am in psychology and right now we are learning about behaviorism. I find the topic very interesting and I would like to analyze the psychological state of the survivors, especially Vladek, using the behaviorist ideology. I also would like to incorporate a book I, and all of Menendian's old students, read. I think I could use One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I really liked that book, it was probably one of the better ones we read in Menendian's class, in my opinion. In Ivan Denisovich I could not believe how bad they had been treated, how they walked for miles to do a job in the freezing cold the whole day and then walk back in the freezing cold. It was astonishing, and sad. But it really was next to nothing compared to what the Nazi's did in Maus. In history it was supposed that the Russian work camps were worse. Not only were they killing, but they weren't targeting a religious group like how the Nazi's targeted the Jews. They killed their own people. But what was depicted in Maus was a lot worse than what I read in Ivan Denisovich. I want to compare the two, and maybe even use the passage we used in class about how history is a narrative. I think I really like that route.