EYES, of the Author
The descriptions are tailored to insert the reader as a participatory observer to the humiliating adversity that the main character encounters. Several times this year we have read authors who attempted to describe an enormously tragic event without actually being there. For example Tony Morrison used a written account of a mother killing her child so that they would not have to become slavers. She circled the event several different ways before she felt she had accurately captured the intensity of emotions that accompanied this event. Likewise, Art Spiegelman primarily used the stories that of his father to recount the horrific treatment of Jews in Auschwitz and other Nazi camps. Spiegelman's style of MAUS was extremely challenging. His use of the chronological to recapture a non-linear memory was manipulated so that the reader could engross themselves in the ongoing saga of Vladek, his father.