Maus Spiegelman Character Analysis

Another unique aspect of Maus is how the author portrays himself in the book, he draws himself as a mouse so you can automatically assume that he identifies himself as a Jew. Spiegelman is an impatient man with a hectic life. He wants to pass on his father’s story, but feels guilty about it. “Somehow my arguments with my father have lost a little of their urgency…, and Auschwitz seems too scary to think about…so I just LIE there.” Spiegelman was so blinded by gathering information for his book that he did not care what his father would say to him or even of his concerns or problems. After his father’s death, he could not even think about what his father endured through Auschwitz and at times finds it incredibly hard to continue with his book. He would listen to his father for hours and even tape record it to get as much information as he can. He asked for his mother’s diary several times, which had recorded her experience through the Holocaust. He was devastated to learn that his father had burned it because his father could not bear the idea of such information existing. The third person view that Spiegelman presents shows how much his father struggled to remember all the facts and his pain in …show more content…
We know that we cannot allow these atrocities to ever happen again and there have been many organizations geared towards peace keeping amongst countries such as NATO. The Jews were scapegoats for Germany’s many problem brought upon the country by the Weimar Republic. Hitler found them an easy group to target and knew it was the most effective way to obtain and maintain power. His scapegoats had to be eliminated for his purification plan to be fulfilled. This process has been reenacted countless times by tyrannical rulers, it is up to as a humankind to ensure ethnic cleansing does not occur ever again and that ever human is given the chance to live a prosperous and healthy