The WALL Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis is the author's true story of growing up in the 1950s during the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain and then finally the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He tells his story with a combination of his drawings and his personal journals. All combined he explains what it was like growing in a Communist World where everything was either censored, banned, prohibited, discouraged, or not talked about at all. Those not following the law would be punished. From a very young age, Sis drew and drew and as he got older, he soon found himself drawing what he really wanted to, but in secret. Sis does a great job of drawing the Communist World in black in white with red flags, and drawing what he thought (Western world) with beautiful, colorful drawings. The end of the book ends with a map showing how he saw the two worlds. One with words as "injustice, terror, envy, lies, corruption" and the other with "liberty, honor, happiness, and equality". He ended in the colorful world with "joy, dreams, love, and justice" to name a few: America.
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