Maus

It think that making the Jews mice and the Nazis cats is great symbolism. Obviously cats eat mice, but making the characters animals show survival and everyone is for themselves. Even though the characters are drawn mice it is still pretty horrifying because it is attached to a very real event that effects people still today. Even though that the story is about the Holocaust, the story is mostly about the relationship between a father and son. Even though the son never was apart of the Holocaust (he was not born yet), he still feels guilty he wasn't there. Why? He also talked about what if he was there. He was even talking about which parent he would save if they had to send one to the ovens. Which is horrifying. Traumatizing events that you hear about or experience will get you to think about things you would never consider. Its funny how dogs are represented as Americans. Americans want to do good they are loyal, but kind of ignorant. I am not sure why Polish people are represented as pigs or why the French are frogs. Is the author trying to say that the French are not useful? I think that representing humans as animals have a lot of symbolism in it. Also, I think that the author chose to do this because animals are easier to read about because it takes the horrifying humanistic trauma out of it. Also it helps divide the people based upon species, to really show how people were divided during the holocaust. I like the art style it is bold and simple which gives more power to the story rather than the drawings.