Dear Mr. Art Spiegelman,

I read your book, Maus I, and I would like to share my opinion and comments with you on this book, focusing primarily on the way it affects teenage children, like myself. First, I would like to concentrate on the technique in which you presented this story, as a comic and cartoons. I think that the analogy of cats and mice to the Nazis and the European Jews was the perfect correlation. Just like sly cats prey on tiny and helpless mice, so too the sly Nazis massacred the small defenseless Jews. Although others might think that writing the serious and depressing story of the Holocaust in a cartoon-like manner is unsuitable, I consider it an ingenious piece of work; it makes reading about the Holocaust a lot more interesting than reading a boring history book. Therefore, it makes it easier for young adults to learn about and understand the Holocaust.

There are several other ways you made relating to and understanding about the Holocaust easier to teens like me. For example, the use of personal stories is very moving to children and more realistic than the more general story of the war, containing large numbers like six million; six million is too large a number for young kids to comprehend. Within Mass I you formed a father-son relationship which makes it easy for teenagers to relate to and understand the difficulties that occurred to many families in Europe. My overall opinion and view on Maus I is that it's a brilliant idea and it's an excellent way for teenagers to understand and relate to the Holocaust by means of cartoons, comic-like literature, and personal stories. Thank you for helping me in understanding and relating to the Holocaust better.