Blog Post #13

Maus was definitely my favorite book to read this semester. I think that if I had to compare it to any of the books that we read, I would compare it to Eating Animals. Both Jonathan Safran Foer and Art Spegielman used the technique of story telling. Instead of spouting facts at us, like Carr did in the Shallows, they both make us want to read the book and learn what happens next. Both authors also use personal experience. Foer uses facts as well as how he found out the information he presented by describing the times he broke into factory farms. Spegielman’s whole book is from his point of view. I see these books as very similar as they both use the same techniques, such as pathos. Spegielman uses pathos when drawing or telling his father’s story to get sympathy from his audience, just as Foer uses pathos to get sympathy towards the animals. Foer shows us the worst things that are done in factory farms and to the animals we eat, while Spegielman shows us the worst things that humans could do to other humans. Also, they both use others’ point of view throughout their books. Foer uses the letters and testimonies he receives from people he has interviewed and Spegielman uses his father’s, mala’s, and his wife’s point of view.