Okay so this week we are supposed to think about possible thesis topics for the Maus essay. This is definitely one of the more interesting books that I have read in my day but writing an essay for it might be a little harder than I originally thought it would be. I think that in my essay I will most likely be talking about point of view, what it does for the story, how it does it, and why it does it. I will go with point of view mainly because I was interested in how the story switches from Vladek telling his story about Auschwitz to Artie telling about Vladek’s personal life as well as parts of his own. I haven’t ironed out the details yet but that is what the last two days of Christmas break will be for.
I will most definitely use some of the sources that we have gotten in class. I really found that McCloud one to be very interesting and think that it will help prove the point I will be arguing. I don’t know how but I might try to incorporate common misconceptions about graphic novels and how they can tell just as good stories as all other novels if not better than some. I also might use the other article by Linda Hutcheon we got in class. That also had some good insight into this book. I don’t know exactly if I will be using postmodernism, it just seems a little irrelevant to what I will potentially be trying to prove. But if I have a good idea/epiphany I will surely incorporate it into my essay.
Although I haven’t done so yet I most likely will go and look at additional outside sources and see if they can help me in better understanding the seemingly simple yet multi-layered book. So that’s about all for right now.
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