Maus IMy Father Bleeds History Overview

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Maus IMy Father Bleeds HistoryOverview

• Title Maus IMy Father Bleeds History
• Author Art Spiegelman
• Published 1973 through 1991
• Category Fiction
• Graphic Novel
• Memoir
• Biography
• Historical

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Maus IMy Father Bleeds HistoryAbout the Author

• Art Spiegelman is co-founder/editor of Raw, the
  acclaimed magazine of comics and graphics. His
  work has been published in the New York Times,
  Playboy, the Village Voice, and many other
  periodicals, and his drawings have been exhibited
  in museums and
• galleries here and abroad. Mr.
• Spiegelman lives in New York
• City with his wife, Francoise
• Mouly, and their daughter, Nadja.

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Maus IMy Father Bleeds HistorySummary

• Maus is a story within a story Art Spiegelman,
  the son of two survivors of the Holocaust, tells
  how he interviewed his father Vladek about his
  Holocaust experience, and it tells the story of
  the father's persecution and survival. It is
  written in a comic book format, with various
  types of animals representing the various
  nationalities and religions (however, Jews are
  mice, no matter what nationality they are).

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Maus IMy Father Bleeds HistoryGeneral Characters

• The Jews are represented by mice.
• The Germans are represented by cats.
• The Americans are represented by dogs.
• The Poles are represented by pigs.
• The Roma (Gypsies) are represented as gypsy
  moths.
• The British are represented by fish.
• The child of a Jew and a German is shown as a
  mouse with cat stripes.

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Maus IMy Father Bleeds HistoryMajor Characters
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Maus IMy Father Bleeds HistoryUniversal Themes

• Family Guilt
• Survivors Guilt
• Past vs. Present
• Survival
• Luck
• Race and Class
• Holocaust
• Death
• Relationships