HUGO SIEBE MARYN MAUS 2 PEOPLE MAUS 2

HUGO, SIEBE & MARYN MAUS: 2 PEOPLE

MAUS 2 PEOPLE INTRODUCTION ▸ 2 Storylines: Vladek vs Art ▸ Relationships theme ▸ Many people in book

MAUS 2 PEOPLE MR MANDELBAUM

MAUS 2 PEOPLE NAZI’S AND BETRAYAL

MAUS 2 PEOPLE INTRODUCTION 2 ▸ Most important: Art and Vladek ▸ Strained father-son ▸ Sympathizing ▸ Modern American vs Holocaust Jew

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MAUS 2 PEOPLE PHARSAS TRUMA ▸ Event that exists in Jewish religion Special part of the Torah, only once a year ▸ Modern American: Not his religion, this will lead to less understanding ▸ Holocaust Jew: His religion, rareness of the event. Experience: three months in a camp.

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MAUS 2 PEOPLE DAVID STAR ▸ Item the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear ▸ Holocaust Jew: ‘Experience’ with the star. Might have worn it him/her self. Aware of great danger. ▸ Modern American: less afraid of the star. Its just a star. ▸ Religion makes a difference

MAUS 2 PEOPLE READER’S SYMPATHY ▸ American reader vs Jewish Holocaust survivor ▸ Interpretation of Maus depends on multiple factors ▸ Americans wouldn’t understand Vladek’s attitude

`MAUS 2 PEOPLE READER’S SYMPATHY ▸ Vladek would be understood by fellow survivors ▸ Tendency to hold on to unnecessary things ▸ Stubbornness

MAUS 2 PEOPLE IMAGES AND IMAGERY ▸ Images aid understanding

MAUS 2 PEOPLE “SOME PART OF ME DOESN’T WANT TO DRAW OR THINK ABOUT AUSCHWITZ. I CAN’T VISUALIZE IT CLEARLY AND I CANT BEGIN TO Art Spiegelman IMAGINE WHAT IT FELT LIKE”

MAUS 2 PEOPLE IMAGES AND IMAGERY ▸ Images aid understanding ▸ Animals to represent people ▸ American happy to accept image ▸ Agree with anthropomorphism ▸ Not happy with the bluntness of images

MAUS 2 PEOPLE COHN FAMILY HANGING

MAUS 2 PEOPLE IMAGES AND IMAGERY 2 ▸ Jews like bluntness: story told ▸ Disagree with imagery: Prey ▸ Imagery reduces gravity ▸ Indirect storytelling

MAUS 2 PEOPLE INDIRECT STORY: EXAMPLE ▸ Used to work in tinshop ▸ Picture for Americans