I stumbled across an article on CNN.com about a Japanese Zero pilot in World War II lamenting the war and his country’s role in it. One point made in the article that caught my attention was “Harada said his main concern is that as his war generations dies out, decisions about Japan’s future will rest with younger people who have only known peace and never experienced the horrors of war” (Wright, 2015). That is a sobering thought and equally applicable here in the United States along with the rest of the world. To get the message across to the new generation here in the United States Art Spiegelman used a comic book style format which provided every bit as much information and impact as a more traditionally written story.
The author created this story from interviews of his father who along with his wife, alluded the Nazi’s and then when finally captured were lucky to have survived captivity in a concentration camp in World War II. As his father aged he wanted to capture his memories for future generations. While reading this story I found myself thinking back to Mary Rowlandson’s account of her captivity with the Indians. Spiegelman used imagery to convey what his father thought of the Poles and Nazis. For instance he drew the Polish people as pigs, the Nazis as …show more content…
Conflict between the homeless Jews and the Nazi’s as well as the conflict between the Jew’s and the Polish people. The conflict between the Jews and the Nazis is not unlike that of the White people and the Indians in Mary Rowlandson’s account of her captivity. Also similar are the themes of both works. In the case of Maus the theme is really the Jews against the Nazis and the Poles while Rowlandson’s is the struggle while a captive of the “murderous wretches” (Rowlandson, 1682, p. 128). The plots of the two are not the same but they are not all that different. They both chronicle the struggle that one group of people has with another
The author created this story from interviews of his father who along with his wife, alluded the Nazi’s and then when finally captured were lucky to have survived captivity in a concentration camp in World War II. As his father aged he wanted to capture his memories for future generations. While reading this story I found myself thinking back to Mary Rowlandson’s account of her captivity with the Indians. Spiegelman used imagery to convey what his father thought of the Poles and Nazis. For instance he drew the Polish people as pigs, the Nazis as …show more content…
Conflict between the homeless Jews and the Nazi’s as well as the conflict between the Jew’s and the Polish people. The conflict between the Jews and the Nazis is not unlike that of the White people and the Indians in Mary Rowlandson’s account of her captivity. Also similar are the themes of both works. In the case of Maus the theme is really the Jews against the Nazis and the Poles while Rowlandson’s is the struggle while a captive of the “murderous wretches” (Rowlandson, 1682, p. 128). The plots of the two are not the same but they are not all that different. They both chronicle the struggle that one group of people has with another