Blog Post 13

I believe that Maus shares more similarities with Safran Foer’s Eating Animals than it does with Carr’s The Shallows. The arguments that Spiegelman and Safran Foer both make are relied upon pathos more so than Carr’s argument. Both Maus and Eating Animals get an emotional reaction out of their readers because they are sensitive topics written with the author’s own story. These stories are told with more personal details than The Shallows, which is more based on the technical aspects of Nicholas Carr’s argument. Carr is extremely repetitive and uses various stories about the history of things such as writing and reading to get his point across. Spiegelman and Safran Foer are different, because they tell personal stories that somehow involve other family members. This causes the pathos to be a lot more prevalent naturally because it is about someone’s personal history. Spiegelman tells the story of his father’s journey through the Holocaust, and this is completely different from Carr’s book. I can’t really see the similarities in these two stories. Carr is trying to argue a specific point even and Spiegelman is unsure of what he is even trying to argue here.