In relation to hte pyramid discussed by McCloud in chapter 2 and where Maus falls into that pyramis, I feel there could be many viewpoints to debate. However, I feel that Maus falls somewhere between reality and language. Although the pictures in the graphic memoir are mice you seem to forget that you are looking at mice in the pictures as you read further and further into the book as discussed in class. This combined with the tragic event, The Holocaust, is what pulls this story toward reality. More toward the language side of the pyramid are the people who are more intersted in ideas and Spiegelman expresses this section of the pyramid through his father. Spiegelman shows how his father feels his son should act in the prologue which is an idea of his father's, but more importantly when writing the story he relayed all of his father's feelings and ideas about The Holocaust mixed with his father's experiences (the language side). What o you guys think?