Maus

Maus was a comic based book that was written about the holocaust by Timothy Sexton, he also Art Spiegeman wrote . He demonstrated how to write a comic literature book that showed some presentation and subject towards the Holocaust . In his comic book he did not use human characters, instead he used animals known as mice. Spiegelman's success in avoiding charges of trivialization may possibly lie in his artistic choice to treat the Holocaust through metaphor.” Instead of making the characters in Muas II as humans but animals, he was able to avoid the questioning of the audiences if this is actually what happens in the Holocaust itself. Also, the audience are allow to not take the story into believing that it is the actual occurrences of the Holocaust. Sexton supported that “tradition-ally, the use of animal characters in an allegory are intended to draw stark distinctions between character types.” Animals tend to categorize and demonstrate who is who in the storyline. The readers could distinct that the Jews are the mice and the Germans are the cats. A writer that goes by Ian Johnston writes an article on the book,  Johnston discusses the possible protagonist of the novel.  He points out that Vladek at times seems like the main character, but unlike a true main character, he does not resolve his conflict through his own personal skills, rather he survives the Holocaust through pure luck.  Also, he does not even seem to learn anything from his experiences, as shown by his racism to the black guy in the novel. There were two pictures that were compared to each other about the comic book, one of the pictures were with mickey mouse the famous disney character and another picture of a box. The pictures had a characteristic towards the holocaust. The writing style he chosen brought this upon the topic.