The Poles Are Animals Analysis

It helps a lot with understanding the novel, giving us a visual of what his father went through. Spiegelman used the stereotypes of each raced and matched them up with an animal that best describes their character. Mice were portray as smart, sneaky and dirty creatures that could not be trusted. Germans are cats, predators who prey on the Jewish (mice). The Poles are pigs, because pigs are indifferent to both mice and cats playing the part they given. He portray both nationality and race as animals indicating where the allegory falls apart taken from historical stereotypes as well his own interpretation.