World War II: A Review Of Valdek's The Complete Maus

The Complete Maus is the story of a young man, Artie, and his father, Valdek, as Valdek revisits his past as a Jew during World War II. Valdek reminisces his life in his younger days and progresses forward to him meeting his first wife, Anja Zylberberg, following the birth of his first son, Richieu. The story proceeds with Valdek telling the experience of when he is escorting his wife, Anja, to a sanitarium for treatment for post-partum depression, they oversee the spread of Nazism and anti-Semitism being displayed throughout central Europe. Valdek did not have the thoughts of that becoming a serious situation once they return back home. The story furthers on with how Valdek went from living wealthy to going into poverty. Also, on the experiences in being in the harshest concentration camp in Auschwitz along with being separated from his wife. The story sets in with the rising of Hitler to power, and spread of Nazism; also, the start of another world war, World War II. Furthermore, it signifies with the start of malicious acts towards Jews and other non-Germans by Hitler in what we called the Holocaust.
Artie gives us light information on the relationship between him and Valdek. He explains that their relationship is a little …show more content…
I felt that I was not going to be able to enjoy the book without feeling some emotion. After I completed reading this narrative my whole outlook on the book changed. My response was that I was intrigued that the book was written in comic book style; also, the pictures was graphic, but it caught my attention and I wanted to read more. Also, I caught interest by the way Spiegelman replaced humans with animals, though it was different but yet the animals were terribly human by the end of the story. Furthermore, you was able to differentiate between Jews and Germans, Americans and Polish with his using animals in place of