Art Spiegelman's Maus

Has anyone read an adult book that has the characters as animals? In English 112 students are given a book to read called Maus. Maus is written by Art Spiegelman. Park says Maus won the Pulitzer Prize award for a story being so good about the Holocaust in a comic book style (Park Par. 1). This is a book is a real story about a son asking questions and talking to his father, a survivor of the Holocaust and a survivor of a concentration camp called Auschwitz, about the things that happen to him and the experience he had gone through the Holocaust. The people in the book are represented by characters with animal mask on instead of real people. This paper is going to explain the importance of why the characters are animals instead of the real

The pigs were another one of the main characters in the story; they were Polish. Some of the pigs did not like what was going on during the Holocaust, so they would hide the Jews from the Nazi so they would not get taken. Some of the pigs took them in and feed them and kept them safe and other pigs really didn’t care, they just did not want to get caught. They told the Jew they could hide in the sheds, barns, or storage areas, but if they got caught by the Nazis, they better say that the pigs did not know they was hiding on their property and they better run. If the pigs got caught hiding the Jews, they would send the pigs to the concentration camps to work for the Nazis, doing their dirty work, or sometimes they would just kill them for betraying the Nazis (Spiegelman 190). Some pigs where not like this though. A real-life pig is known for squealing and being dirty and that just exactly what some of the pigs in the story did. You could see some of the pigs in the concentration camps doing the dirty work (Spiegelman 186). Another time the pigs told on the Jews is when Vladek was walking down the road and a little pig yells out “It’s a Jew! It’s a Jew!” (Spiegelman 151). The little pig’s parents came running out the house and Vladek had to talk to the parents to make them believe that he was not a Jew. The pigs and some mice would tell of the Jews and give up their hiding spots so they would not get in trouble, but yet, most of the time the mouse that told went on with the rest of them that was hiding to the concentration camps too (Spiegelman 115). That is why the Polish people got chosen as