Maus is an interesting narrative that tells the story of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a genocide where the leader, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany killed over six million Jews in 1941. As described in “Maus”, the Holocaust began slowly with just discrimination and quickly expanded to mass murders. Hitler was one of the many reasons that the Holocaust and even World War 2 initiated. He rose to power with his ability to lecture and give speeches. Many Germans were convinced that he would bring end to their misery after the oppression they endured during World War 1. The graphic novel, “Maus”, describes the author, Artie, as he interviews his father, Vladek, about what he encountered during the Holocaust. Vladek is old and does not quite cope well with his second wife Mala. Throughout the story, Vladek and Artie share a father-son bond over Vladek’s horrendous experience in many places like Auschwitz. Anti-Semitism is discrimination that still holds true through these days.
Maus illustrates the anti-semite idea that Jews are less than human by depicting the Jews as
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In most cases the memorize that Vladek shared had a great influence to the present. As a result of the contrast between past and present readers can understand the Holocaust better and have somewhat a sense of imagery of what the Holocaust was actually like. Spiegelman does a magnificent job of bringing the past to life by historical photographs, documents and especially with a first hand account of the Holocaust. “Wait! Please, Dad, if you don’t keep your story chronological, I’ll never get it straight” (Spiegelman, 84). The quote illustrates how exact Spiegelman wanted to be in telling “Maus”. However, the reader losses an essential part of the book which is Vladek’s view in telling his story. The book would have been more authentic and real if Art told “Maus” exactly how his father told his story and