The novel "Maus" written by Art Spiegelman is very interesting and not like anything or any book I have read before. Aside from being like a comic book and being mostly just dialogue it is also basically two autobiographies in one. One from the point of view of Art and the other from his father Vladek. The thing I liked most about the book was the “quest” like plot that it had. For example you have the call to action that Vladek has as he has to find ways and be resourceful to survive WWII in occupied Poland. The next thing that I noticed that was very quest like was the Journey that they were put on and incarceration and frustration faced midway through. As far as the journey is concerned Vladek and his family are sent off to concentration camps far from where they live. Then comes the incarceration and frustration, the incarceration clearly being the concentration camps and most of the frustration coming from trying to get Anja and the rest of his family to Auschwitz from Birkenau. Towards the end, like any quest, Vladek (the hero) almost faces peril as he becomes extremely ill at Dachau and almost dies. In the end though he makes it through and completes his quest and is reunited with his wife Anja in their hometown, and soon after immigrate to The United States to start a new life. Another thing that I found very interesting was the themes of the novel. From the themes of power, ware fare, guilt and blame, family, and in my opinion the most obvious, race. The depiction of race in this novel can be taken from many perspectives seeing that each race was a different animal. The Germans being cats, the Polish being pigs, and the Jews being mice. Many of my classmates have thrown around the idea that the animal that depicts the race has a negative connotation but I have a much different theory. In my opinion the animals are there to show that people cannot be reducible to one characteristic or another seeing that throughout the nov