My Experience with the Blogs

Our whole blogging experience was a very interesting one but it is also a very different one. Not many people are able with computers although they should be and it is not an excuse to not posting the blogs on time it is something that it’s true. This blogging experience I believe that has helped some of us become more useful when having a computer in front of us but sometimes the blogs were not handed in on time and maybe that will affect their grade. It is a very different experience and I do not disagree with it at all because I think that students should have a little variety and that they should learn to do diferent stuff and also new stuff. The blogs also save us time and money on priting the papers and wasting them on ink. I like the site blogger.com because it was a very easy site to use and also very accesible once you got the hang of it. The first blogs were the most difficult to make because I always forgot the due date and/or the comments that we had to make. But as the semester went by I got used to making the blogs every sunday and at the end it was just automatic. I was not relaxed until I finished my weekly blog. The first ones were also more difficult because I did not know what to specifically write about of each story but the more I wrote the easier they got to write them and I also wrote them more gladly. In conclusion, our whole blogging experience was very interesting and it was something very different. Of course, like everything, it had it's advantages and disadvantages but I fully support it and I am glad that we did it.

Maus

“Maus” is considered to be one of the best graphic novels ever written. Art Spiegelman used his parents’ experiences and his relationship with his parents to write this graphic novel. I really liked it because it was very different from the traditional way of reading a novel for an English class. The graphic novel is divided into two volumes. The first one deals with the holocaust and the second one deals with the relationship between father and son. I liked how the author, Spiegelman, used animals in order to portray the people from different countries. My favorite although it didn’t had that much importance in the novel was the British portrayed as fish and the French portrayed as frogs. I liked it because I thought it was funny. I thought that was very disturbing when Vladik calls Artie, Richie at the end of the graphic novel. It made me really mad and it made me think really bad about Vladik and how bad a father he was because it made me think that he was being nice and was having a parent-son relationship with Artie because he remembered him of Richie. I think that people should know about this book because it can change the way they think of “comics” and the way they think of literature, because in a “fun” way Art Spiegelman told us about the holocaust and about his fathers’ experiences. This book is not only about the holocaust it is also about father-son relationships and Spiegelman portrayed this in a very good manner.