Maus 1 By Art Spiegelman

Maus 1 by Art Spiegelman is a story that depicts his father's (Vladek) survival through Nazi Germany and through concentration camps. The first thing you would have noticed in this book is that it is not your normal novel, it is actually written like a comic. Doing this allows the reader to actually enjoy reading the story instead of getting bored and putting it down, or getting bombarded with mental images of violence, even though this is about surviving in Nazi occupied Poland. Throughout The novel Spiegelman depicts characters in such a way that allows the reader to not be emotionally affected by the amount of violence in this book. For example Spiegelman depicts Jews as rats, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs. By doing this Spiegelman
Of course it is common knowledge that during Nazi occupation many human rights were violated to say the least and millions of lives were lost. But that’s not what this book is about. This book is about the will that one man has to survive and its association with the love for his wife Anja, which is one main reason he survives.
Vladek was always preparing for something, he always wanted to be prepared if the worst should happen. He would keep things so he could barter them later for things that they need Valdek knew what he wanted and wanted the best that he could get. Even when he was in the P.O.W camp he did not want to die there and decided to that he would volunteer because he wanted to be treated like a human