Maus + White

Alright so this is my first official blog for kg's ill blog for the ages so any criticisms or comments will be most helpful so I may live up to my name. I would like to talk about Maus and it's interpretation of the holocaust through the point of view of mice or Jewish people for that matter. The Jewish people were viewed as vermin through the eyes of German Nazis who were portrayed as cats. Cats and Mice have a long history of not liking each other for example, Tom and Jerry. Tom always wanted to get rid of Jerry but could never succeed and the same thing went for the Jewish people.

To be more specific the story of the holocaust was told by Vladek Spiegalman so his son, Art, could do a comic illustration about the story. He goes into great detail about what he saw and the hardships his family had to overcome to survive.

White speaks of the narrative and how it is a story told through someone's point of view. This can be related to Maus because the story of events from the holocaust was interpreted by Vladek Spiegalman. This is subjective because he is the only one telling the story which makes it seem as if his story is accurate. However, others may have witnessed and experienced different things during this time. For example, Vladek's wife Anja wrote about the events in her journal but Vladek destroyed this documentation and no one knows what she had experienced. This goes to show that there is more than one story to be told other than Vladeks and thus another narrative would be born.