Maus and the Fun Home

After reading some excerpts from these two stories, I do have to say that there was some very strong emotions in both of them. I would first like to talk about the first chapter in the Fun Home and about how awful it must be to live like that. Being at fear for each and every action you might do and also having no control over anything? The father practically told them how everything was going to be and if they did not like it, then it was too bad for them. Also he beat them when they messed something up or also when they criticized him. He was a perfectionist, not a father.
One particular line that stood out to me was that he treated the furniture like children and the children like furniture. This one line stands out to me because it described the entire 20 page excerpt in one line. The father was so caught up in having his perfect house that he wasn't a father to his children. He used them as free labor, and also seemed like he didn't love them. They were an extension of himself. This must be a terrible situation for the children to be in and I can't understand how or why the father does not realize what he is doing to his family.
The other except was from the story Maus. This was all about a flash back of a man who was in the war in Germany. It turned out he was Jewish and was going from bad situation to bad situation. He was enlisted in the war even though his father tried to cheat the system and get him out of it. Then he was capture by German soldiers and forced into a POW. There he was forced to work and suffer because he was Jewish. He however may be one of the luckiest people out there. He signs up for a German work program where he gets food and a bed to perform manual labor. This isn't the best possible thing to happen but it was a step up from the freezing cold he was in before. Then from there he is actually released from the work program which seems amazing until word gets out that the Germans are actually just going to kill him and everyone else that was released. Again staying with the luck theme, he ends up not getting killed. He is smuggled out by pretending he is a relative of someone else and he safely makes it to his home.