Maus I My Father Bleeds History Sparknotes

Adolf Hitler was the face behind the Holocaust, the biggest genocide in World History. Why would people follow a leader who treated innocent people so terribly? And furthermore, why would a leader treat his fellow people so terribly? The Holocaust began from his hatred for Jewish people. He dreamed of taking away the entirety of the Jewish population. He made this dream a reality by creating an Army that put Jews in Ghettos and made them prisoners of War. Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman, author of Maus I: My Father Bleeds History expresses that he learned the idea that guilt can cause damage to a person’s mental health, especially after trauma throughout his life experiences during the Holocaust

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As an author, I believe I might have looked several years off the thirteen I devoted to my two-volume project if I could have taken a novelist’s license while searching for a novel structure. (Doherty 69)

Spiegelman knows that: “It’s great material. It makes everything more real - more human” (Spiegelman 23). Spiegelman wanted to make clear that it was his father telling the story, not him therefore, Spiegelman made it clear that his book is

In the Holocaust, ghettos are a form of living space for Jews. The purposes of, “Ghettos were designed to serve the Nazis as laboratories for testing the methods of slow and ‘peaceful’ destruction of whole groups of human beings” (Browning 343). The ghettoization was less than a living space and more of a tortured space for the Jews. Spiegelman’s father lived in a ghetto in Poland. Although living in the ghetto was dispiriting, Spiegelman’s father tried to stay positive. He refused to let life in the ghetto get to him, saying “ I’m not going to die and I won’t die here! I want to be treated like a human being” (Spiegelman 54). By Spigelemans father saying this, it is made clear that the treatment in the ghettoization was brutal. He was treated more like a lab rat rather than a human being. Along with the poor treatment, Jews spoke on the topic of the descent of their ancestors. Parents spoke about their traumatic events, “When he finished reading there was a moment of stunned silence followed by fierce courage, both my parents became palpably upset but it is my father's pain I remember the most '' (Roy 192). Roy was saying shows the heart-breaking stories from this tragic