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Maus Art Spiegelman Analysis

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Art Spiegelman, author of the comic book Maus, uses small images to portray large tragic events that his father suffered through during the Holocaust. Previously in the story Art’s father, Vladek stated, “When my brother Marcus got 21 years, Father put him on a starvation diet. Always Marcus was sickly-so thin. And When he went for the army examination....They didn’t take him,”(Spiegelman, 47). When the time arrived for Vladek to go into war, his father did the same thing to him, as he did for his older brother. The frame on page 48, located in the lower left corner, shows the intense process that Vladek went through to prevent himself from being chosen to go into the war. Starving himself, making him appear ill and skinny was the only way
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