Art Spiegelman is the author of Maus one and Maus two. Spiegelman’s books are the story of his father’s holocaust experience. The unique perspective of Maus is that it is told in the form of post memory. Post memory is the second generation telling the memories of the survivor generation. Spiegelman is a second generation witness and tells the story of his father who is part of the survivor generation. Second generation is extremely important because they are the ones who keep these memories alive and tell the stories of the survivors to younger generations. Spiegelman’s uses of post memory shows respect to his father by keeping his father stories alive to be heard and learned by younger generations. Spiegelman tells his father’s story as a comic book and had Jews portrayed as
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Later in book, Vladek had escaped being deported and had received fake I.D papers. But after escaping the ghetto, he had no idea where to go. Vladek says, “We walked in the direction of sosnowiec-But no where to go”(Spiegelman 125). The reason this part of the book is important is because of the cartoon drawn for this scene. This scene has Vladek and Anja walking on path, but the path is drawn out to be a Swastika. Spiegelman’s use of this is important because it shows how Jews were never safe during the Holocaust. This also showed how Vladek and Anja may have escaped being deported this time but they are constantly surrounded by Nazis. No matter what direction Vladek and Anja would have went, Nazis would have be there. Spiegelman’s usage of cartoon helps show different key aspects of the Holocaust. Through his unique way of cartoonism, Spiegelman is able to pass on the importance of his father’s survivor story. By reading Maus, generation today are able to learn what the survivor generation had to go through and can inform others the horrific
Later in book, Vladek had escaped being deported and had received fake I.D papers. But after escaping the ghetto, he had no idea where to go. Vladek says, “We walked in the direction of sosnowiec-But no where to go”(Spiegelman 125). The reason this part of the book is important is because of the cartoon drawn for this scene. This scene has Vladek and Anja walking on path, but the path is drawn out to be a Swastika. Spiegelman’s use of this is important because it shows how Jews were never safe during the Holocaust. This also showed how Vladek and Anja may have escaped being deported this time but they are constantly surrounded by Nazis. No matter what direction Vladek and Anja would have went, Nazis would have be there. Spiegelman’s usage of cartoon helps show different key aspects of the Holocaust. Through his unique way of cartoonism, Spiegelman is able to pass on the importance of his father’s survivor story. By reading Maus, generation today are able to learn what the survivor generation had to go through and can inform others the horrific