Maus is an incredible work of imagination and real life events wrote by Art Spiegelman. This book is based on the events during the holocaust and a true survivor's story (Arts Dad Vladek Spiegelman) and what he and his wife (Anja Spiegelman) had to do to survive everyday of the holocaust. In the book the Nazis are portrayed as cats. The jews are portrayed as mice. Poland's are portrayed as pigs. Americans are portrayed as dogs and so on. To write a book that has so many details and that really shows the differences in people in the world like Spiegelman does is very imaginative. In the book, Spiegelman flips back and forth between the present when he’s receiving the information about the holocaust from his dad to when his dad and wife were …show more content…
The war kept going, jews kept dying. It;s sad that there was nothing we could do about it. No one even knew it was happening till the end of the war. I can’t imagine the looks on the soldiers faces when they looked at the camps when they first found them. It must have been horrifying to see or even smell. I just can’t imagine the pain and suffering them people went through in those camps. Slaving their lives away bc of their DNA. Because of just being there. Just being alive. What kind of person does that. Kills people and slaughters them just because they’re there and alive. No one should ever have to go through something like that in there lives at all. These people and their stories and what they had to go through just to see another day is very well portrayed in Spiegelman's book. Almost no detail from those people had to go through in everyday life was left out. It is truly amazing how such a little thing can have such a big impact on someone. Maus is not only a book. It’s someone's life. Someone’s life is played throughout that book. Something someone actually did. Something they actually lived through. It’s hard to imagine that, but it’s the cold truth someone actually did this and had to do it just to see the sun