Maus Essay

Maus Essay

I enjoyed Art Speigelmans Maus book. I really like how he made it a comic book and how he substituted the real life characters for animals. The book appeals to all ages and can be easily read and understood. I think the book makes learning about the holocaust easier for those who don’t exactly like opening up a huge history book. It’s informative and keeps your attention at the same time.

Speigelman, creates a society that a present generation has never been exposed too. The book is not diverse in its reading but very diverse in its presentation and in its representation of the holocaust. The Holocaust forced an alternate way of living that conflicted with an average lifestyle that may have been taking place in any another part of the world.  The diversity that took placed throughout the Holocaust cannot be compared to any other situation or any other event in history. The terrible life style that people who lived through the Holocaust are familiar with is very vividly animated in the art that was drawn in the book. Images are graphic but the words have more of an impact. It is a revelation to any reader who did not live through the period or ever hear stories about the difficulties that people suffered in order to save their own lives.

The diversity in the style of presentation that Art Spiegelman chose to relay his father's story attracts the attention and can relate to a reader of any age. There were several different types characters and they were expressed throughout the novel as animals.  The Jews were mice, Germans were cats, Polish were pigs, and the French were frogs. The comic book style shows the reader in many ways, how the characters react, feel and also sets the scenes extraordinarily

well.  The sketches depict the exactness of the bunkers and chambers which became the homes

of those who fought for their lives. The author can tell an entire story in few words and in pictures but with the same detailed structure as any...