Week 7: Maus
Maus by Art Spiegelman talks about his father's life; Vladek, a Polish Jew who's a Holocaust survivor. Art interviews his dad and he talks about his survival through Auschwitz with his wife Anja, which is never easy. Vladek constantly struggled in Holocaust to survive, being separated with his first wife and so. Sometimes the realistic truth in story was heartbreaking, such as the will of survival breaks family bonds, friendship, and their cultural identity.
At the beginning of a story, relationship between son and dad was not the closest, sometimes showing guilt as a survivor. From most of the Auschwitz survivor story, they always think they’re lucky to survive and feel guilt to their family members to be the only survivor, and those are the part where it always makes myself to feel pity. Loss of survivor’s family, aftermath of going through the traumatic genocide, listening to those inhumanity history makes me feel sick. As a side story, I like how relationship develops as Art interviews his father, but never clear at the end by loss of his father. It really makes my emphasize when I’m not a person who went through this situation.
From this comic, different races and nationalities in the stories are drawn as different animals-- such as Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. It’s a very simple way of showing characters but pretty much understandable, so I think it’s doing a good job of showing relationship between Jews and German by that time. Not only the character, I think this is one of the great experience based book that describes painful history, such as The Diary of a Young Girl. Perspective on every story may differ, but it is always amazing to see survivors speak out to tell the world about their involved story.
At the beginning of a story, relationship between son and dad was not the closest, sometimes showing guilt as a survivor. From most of the Auschwitz survivor story, they always think they’re lucky to survive and feel guilt to their family members to be the only survivor, and those are the part where it always makes myself to feel pity. Loss of survivor’s family, aftermath of going through the traumatic genocide, listening to those inhumanity history makes me feel sick. As a side story, I like how relationship develops as Art interviews his father, but never clear at the end by loss of his father. It really makes my emphasize when I’m not a person who went through this situation.
From this comic, different races and nationalities in the stories are drawn as different animals-- such as Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. It’s a very simple way of showing characters but pretty much understandable, so I think it’s doing a good job of showing relationship between Jews and German by that time. Not only the character, I think this is one of the great experience based book that describes painful history, such as The Diary of a Young Girl. Perspective on every story may differ, but it is always amazing to see survivors speak out to tell the world about their involved story.
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