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Art Spiegelman's Maus is a story that told well and can be understood easily be his readers. Usually a good story is one that is clear, understandable, and have an connection to the reader. The opposite of a good story would have parts in a story out of place and hard to understand for the reader. Art’s style to make his story better by using his comic skills in order to tell the story of his father’s past. There are many disagreements when deciding if Maus is is about his father’s story or the relationship

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All of these elements are seen throughout Maus, with both Art, the author, and Vladek Spiegelman exemplifying complications of truth. The subtle and not so subtle instances of truth manipulation can consistently be seen throughout the books, which cause the questioning of what can be considered reality in all literature. Whether consciously or not, truth is manipulated in literature, since perfect memories cannot be recalled, as seen in Maus. Maus displays numerous events where the line between

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The award-winning graphic novel Maus is a first-person story of Art Spiegelman’s father, a Holocaust survivor. However, through the narrative, the author conveys not only the dynamic character of his father, Vladek, but also subtly discloses his own complexity through his commentary on his father’s experiences. In his interesting elucidation, he reveals that he may be just as fascinating of a character, if not more so, than the dynamic persona of his father. In Maus, close reading proves that Art

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mechanisms include drawing for his son’s graphic novel and sharing his experiences. Art Spiegelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, sought peace with survivor’s guilt through art. He constructed Prisoner on the Hell Planet and then the graphic novel Maus as a method to understand the divide between his parents and him, as well as to piece together his family history. Spiegelman utilizes personal photos, a former comic, and a quote to add a visual representation of emotions to what appears at first

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Vladek Spiegelman describes to his son in the book Maus his experiences while living in Poland under Nazi control. This included his time in the ghetto, and also the time he spent in concentration camps such as Auschwitz. Vladek’s stories are very similar to those told in Memories of the Holocaust, which is an account by four different people of what they went through in this same time period. For example, Vladek and these survivors describe similar horrors they endured while both in the ghetto and

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Cross-generational Inheritance and the Traumatic Visuality Art Spiegelman’s Maus exaggerates the means in which such tragic memories and events are almost recycled when passed down from one generation to the next. However, opposed to the magnitude of criticism on the graphic novel, those traumas are not Holocaust-specific, nor can the harm forced upon the second generation always be directly associated to the first generation’s Holocaust experiences. Throughout the novel Spiegelman does not repeal

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privilege that they inherited without working for it, which is often problematic. In Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, we see this form of guilt burden the protagonist, Artie, the son of two Holocaust survivors, in a similar way. In MAUS, Artie Spiegelman focuses on how his survivor’s guilt and his expected role as the child of two Holocaust survivors affects various relationships in his life and connects them in MAUS in order to process his role as a second generation Holocaust survivor. We can see the both ways

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Art Spiegelman’s MAUS is a graphic novel that portrays the World War II and Holocoust by basing on Spiegelman’s fathers life. So it could be said that significantly the book represents the Jewish people’s perspective who had suffered much because of Germans. In the novel, Spiegelman also manages to show the relations between different particular social groups and creates a perspective for the readers by using “allegory” as a symbolism device. To reflect the social groups with allegory, the writer

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The breaks in the main metaphor of Maus occur because of the existential uncertainty of Spiegalman; and, by doing this, he highlights the hypocritical nature of viewing and speaking about the holocaust.It is important to distinguish the metaphor setup by Spiegelman from being a universal metaphor, because if it were, when he breaks the metaphor throughout Maus, those instances would be taken as individualized and intended for a specific meaning within themselves. However, these cases are better

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Why Are Both Maus Books So Good?What makes the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman so good? These graphic novels told the unique story of the author’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, and his mother, Anja Spiegelman, survival through the Holocaust. Not only did the novels tell their story, it also told the story of the father-son relationship between Art and Vladek. Through the usage of different artistic styles, Spiegelman effectively tells the story of Vladek and his relationship with

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