Ready to Rock the Maus Down
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- Over the course of the semester, my English class has studied what classes a work as literature. We've read, heard, and analyzed various works, including Art Spiegelman's Maus...
- Maus recounts Vladek Spiegelman's experience surviving the Holocaust and provides insight into his relationship with his son, Art.
- Maus is literature.
- Wow! Maus sounds like literature to me!
- Literature is an expressive work containing themes and literary devices that may be open to interpretation or analysis and remain relevant over the course of time.
- Maus emphasizes the theme of hope and resilience of the human spirit.
- Vladek counsels her, stating "To die, it's easy... but you have to struggle for life! Until the last moment we must struggle together! I need you! And you'll see that together we'll survive" (Spiegelman 124).
- Throughout the novel, Vladek and his wife, Anja, battle oppression and fight to survive the Holocaust. The horrors they face cause Anja to doubt that surviving is truly worth enduring all of the pain she experiences.
- Even though Anja is tempted to surrender, Vladek encourages her to keep fighting for her life and is adamant that as long as they are together, life will eventually get better.
- Now you're getting it! That's not all, either. Maus contains several literary devices that add to our understanding of the story. The most notable device is probably the extended metaphor comparing different ethnic groups to different animals...
- Oh, I see! Vladek and Anja's decision to continue to "struggle for life" reinforces the theme of hope and resilience of the human spirit!
- Gentile Poles are depicted as pigs, which speaks to the selfishness and greed they display throughout the novel. Gentile Poles consistently oppress Jews and give information regarding their whereabouts to the Nazis throughout Maus. Furthermore, whenever Vladek and Anja did receive help from Gentile Poles, they were required to pay a hefty price.
- Jews are depicted as mice, which is symbolic of their hierarchical place in the Nazi world view. Germans are depicted as cats, who capture and kill mice. The depictions of Jews as mice and Germans as cats represents the oppression Jews faced and emphasizes the power the Nazi party had during the Holocaust.
- Germany
- Poland
- Well, I'm a monkey because I'm known for being quite enthusiastic and sometimes a little tricky. You're a chick because you're kind and non-threatening, but you can get feisty sometimes.
- It's kinda like how I'm pictured as a monkey and you're pictured as a chick when in real life, we're actual people - not animals.
- WAIT
- WHY are we pictured as monkeys and chicks?
- Anyways, the depiction of Jews, Poles, and Germans as different animals informs the reader about these different races interacted and relates that interaction to how we view different animals.
- This metaphor comparing different ethnicities and how they interact to animals ads our understanding of the story and enables us to dive deeper in our analysis.
- I wanted to be a tiger...
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