The Holocaust in "Maus"

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This paper examines Art Spiegelman's "Maus", a digest-sized comic book using mice, cats, pigs and other animals to portray a history of the Holocaust. The story recounts the history of the holocaust through highly detailed drawings and comic panels. The paper shows that "Maus" was designed to translate history into a format that would be readily read by younger generations.

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"As we delve into the relationships within the story, including those that we are familiar with from history books, we begin to realize more and more what these relationships did to shape the ideology of a group of people, if not a community. The use of comic-images would, you would think, soften the realizations and accounts of events in the Holocaust, but in actuality they greatly amplify them. They are drawn images of memories, which in some aspects are somewhat more horrifying and true to life, than the photographs of the time were."

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