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A 5 page paper discussing “Maus I” and “Maus II” by
Art Spiegelman. These are volumes that are actually comic book representations of the
Holocaust as told to Spiegelman by his father, who was a Holocaust survivor. The
characters in the volumes are depicted as mice (victims) and cats (Nazis). In this method
of representation the reader is truly pulled into the horrible coldness and evilness that was
the Holocaust.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmaus.doc
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him that he is the child of a Holocaust survivor. While these books appear in comic book format they are the some of the most impressive and realistic work ever
written in relationship to the Holocaust. By their apparently ridiculous characterizations, one merely assumes that the tale is not a serious one, but the reader quickly comes to understand that
in that ridiculously animated character lies an even more vivid description of the horrors that were part of the lives of anyone who experienced the Holocaust, whether through direct involvement,
or through tales told by others who had experienced the Holocaust. These volumes use the animated figures of mice and cats to depict the characters that are the Holocaust
victims (mice being the prey) and the Nazis (cats being the hunters). In this aspect alone we get a real sense of the sheer morbidity of the actions and events
that took place during ht Holocaust. If the characters had been depicted as human beings we would not get the same mental image by any stretch of the imagination, for
by Spiegelman using mice and cats we see the figures in a very abstract sense that truly illustrates the cold hearted nature of the beast that was the Holocaust. It
is presented as cold and unemotional in many ways, through these very depictions, and also succeeds in presenting the cold and remote attitude that some may have to portray in
order to survive such realities. In the case of the author, we was in a very strong denial mode where he wished he could forget he was the child
of a Holocaust survivor, we see this aspect very clearly. Spiegelman was trying very hard to somehow come to grips with the reality of who he was and who his
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