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The Life & Death of Fritz the Cat

by Robert Crumb

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Julian Nolasco said: " This book is a call to action, for people to look around and see the hypocrisy in their everyday lives and their every day wishes. Taking place in the 1960's The life and death of Fritz the cat by Robert Crumb really satirizes the political climate t This book is a call to action, for people to look around and see the hypocrisy in their everyday lives and their every day wishes. Taking place in the 1960's The life and death of Fritz the cat by Robert Crumb really satirizes the political climate that was taking place by creating a character that embodies the anti society belief which people of the 1960's thought they were. showing the people who thought they were woke just how really dumb they were. they weren't woke they were just adding to the problem.

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Fritz, the cat is supposed to be a character you hate and despise, showing just how disgusting, demented, and despicable humans could and would be had there been no society telling them what is acceptable. One story that highlights the meaning of the comics is the story "Fritz the cat in fritz bugs out" a story about how fritz has a desire to flee from responsibility and venture around the world to gather material for his poetry. In doing so he burns down a his college because he done trying to "out intellectual another intellectual", Fritz incites a mass riots between Crows that represent Black people in the Us, and Pigs that are police officers. and he also cuts off his connection with his loved ones to search for a new life and a new city only to return the second he reached a new city. Fritz is supposed to represent the hippies and rebellious people that wanted nothing to do with being a "slave to the Man"; and Crumb uses his character to show how that way of thinking leads to irrational actions and large consequence. while on the other side of the spectrum showing that leading heavily into the societal views restricts you of your freedom, with his illustrations of the college students being so caught up in their own work they fail to realize the campus is on fire until its right next to them. Crumb highlights that not standing up to police injustice leads to more brutality and racism. How staying with people and making having friends your priority won't allow you to develop as a person.

Why I really enjoy the Book and give it a five star rating is because it covers a various amount of topics that people feared to discuss, showed the two extremes and made you think about what path you are going to follow. Are you going to stay in the grasp of society and live your life based on others views about you? Are you going to "Bug out" and do the opposite of societal norms until your actions catch up with you? Or as I believe Crumb is trying to entice the readers to be. Are you going to realize that life is not about picking sides, but rather accepting both. Be a good citizen yet don't let that control you from finding your free love, or your next poem, perhaps your next social movement. Be a free person without being a harmful one. That is why Fritz the cat (while a difficult read) is still one of the best satirical pieces to date ...more "

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