Maus II

Sorry if this is confusing =(....

Well I honestly can say I have not read the whole book but I have an idea of what the book is about. I enjoy how the author uses animal characters as metaphors for the racial and political conflicts of Germany and Poland. It allows one to endure the motive of the book to have multiple themes and meanings. It can be read with a purpose for the future, personal relationship or account of the Holocaust, and as a story in which the tensions between family members are relative to the public world. The second volume of Maus II moves from Auschwitz to Catskills. It is ultimately obtains a tragic significance and comic by turns; it made an effort by obtaining a complex theme and an accurate thought new to comics and not common in any distant from the ends or extremes. The book, overall, ties together two interesting and impacting stories: the unbearable pain of the survival against all odds and the author’s opinion of his tortured relationship of his aging father. Although I am not quite sure what a good theme would be yet, I have some ideas that I might put forth throughout my essay which include talking about family conflict, irony, guilt, racism, etc. The family conflict could be shown through Art and Vladek or Vladek and Mala. Guilt can be shown when Art survived and his brother did not, about not treating his father as well as he should of, how he treated his mother when she turned to him for reassurance and love before she committed suicide, etc. Irony is such as Vladek dominates everyone just as the Germans dominate him or how the success of Maus makes Art feel guilty.