Maus….well I have got to say that this has been my favorite novel/ comic book we have read this year so far! I feel that Maus is much like architecture. I believe that even though Maus is a well- known novel, people still believe it to be somewhat childish because the way that it is written. The comic book form that Maus has gives readers a feeling like they are actually apart of the story. Architecture is also criticized for its structure. If some buildings do not fit the ideal “standards” that critics place on architecture, then the building is somewhat disapproved. Strange buildings can have a more significant and more powerful meaning behind it than regular, plain buildings. This is the same for novels. Even though a comic book comes off as a more youthful reading tool, deeper meanings can be depicted from it.
The Scott McCloud comic strip things were read in class was very interesting to me. The part when he is talking about the mask was especially note- worthy to me. For example he says “when two people interact, they usually look directly at one another seeing their partner’s features in vivid detail. Each one sustains a constant awareness of his or her own face, but this mind- picture is not nearly so vivid; just a sketchy arrangement… a sense of shapes…a sense of central placement”. This means that when two people are looking at each other, they may think they look a certain way but they really are doing something completely opposite. This makes me wonder about when two people look at the same picture; do they see entirely separate things? I mean people can interpret things differently, but do they SEE different things too? I want to compare architecture to Maus and maybe compare something else, postmodernism maybe, I am not sure what else I want to discuss but it will most likely be along the lines of this.