oral history homework

Art Spiegleman's Maus talks is an oral history of the characters experiences in Europe during world war 2, fighting the Nazi's and being taken prisoner.Part 4 in the oral history research talks about accuracy of oral histories and that it is dependent upon the source to be accurate. The character in Maus on pg 46 talks about training in 1939 before being sent to the front in September. I would consider this more accurate than descriptions of war because a lot of time battle is hectic and things that were thought to of happened didn't really happen. On pg 48 he talks about how his father would wake him up early to make him unfit when he was young, not letting him sleep much at night so he could not goto the army. The oral history of him sitting there and retelling this story to his son, answering questions his son might have is a good example of an oral history.