This was a very intense story, as anything written about the concentration camps and the raise of Nazism in Germany usually is. I wonder at why they chose to write this comic from the perspectives of Mice against Cats. I suppose it was because, as a comic, it needed to feel somewhat fictional or the fact that they were mice, lighted the mood of the comic if only slightly. Whatever it was, I like that they're mice, but I think they should of made it humans. The Jews have a right to tell the story of what atrocities were done to them without having to hide behind false characters. This story was very impactful, though I think maybe less impactful then other Survivor stories I've read from books in the past. Like Anne Frank and Number the Stars, or even the movie Schindler's List, which was fantastic. I feel bad at the end that the son has so much resentment for his father over his mothers suicide. Both of his parents went through the worst ordeal many humans have ever been subjected to. Her suicide isn't exactly surprising, as it must be hard to go on living with something like that weighing on your mind all day every day. It's sad, but true. Though I do feel he is right to be enraged that his father destroyed his mothers diaries from the events.
On a slightly different note, about that movie we watched in class, Barefoot Gen. I'd seen it before, just the part where the bomb fell and all the crap that happened. I'd never watched it start to finish. I have to say that I was fucked up for a while after watching it the first time and this time was no different. I laid around all day feeling sick about it and had to drown it would with watching harmless cartoons. I'm dead inside about it. I knew what was coming but I wanted to see it. I wanted to see it because we owe it to them, to see what we did. Granted, I never did it, but as an American, they would blame us as a whole... And if put in the same situation as those people, I don't know if I would of made a different choice. Honestly, I'm sure if they were on the other side, they wouldn't of hesitated either. War is... a monster and humans do monstrous things in war. No-one is innocent of this when it comes down to it. But it is still horrible to look back on and watch...
