The Rabbi's Cat

" I'm just trying to tell the truth to see how it feels" Kitty (pg.19)The Rabbi's Cat was a really good graphic book because it really brought the characters to life.  Joann Sfar does such a great job with the choice of color of the graphics and with great detail of each character.  However there was one character that really stood out to me was the cat.  I thought he brought personality to the graphic book.  Kitty has a very curious, wise cat, and can be friendly to certain people. The kitty loves the rabbi's daughter and her father is not so sure of kitty.  What makes kitty so unique in my opinion is that he is Jewish and the dog is christian and the author shows a great metaphor between the two.  The Author goes on to demonstrate that no matter what kind of background you come from we can still get along and become friends.  Another focal point of the graphic novel is that this book was based off in the country Algeria, which was under the French dominion.  The novel showed different religion and ethic backgrounds which also relates to the movie Twiste a Popenguine.  In the movie there was different ethic backgrounds and religion as well.  The Rabbi's Cat, Twiste a Popenguine and all of the short stories that were read in class really tied into each other, each novel almost related it back to religion.  Religion is an important factor in the African culture and was for the rabbi, his daughter, and others.  I really did enjoy reading this book it was fun and kept my interest because of all the pictures and humor that kitty brought to the book.