It all tied together and made sense having cats versus mice. Mice are considered a natural prey to cat and a pest overall. This made sense to me because the Nazi views on Jews was that they were less than human and need to be rid of. Mice naturally live the life of hide and seek for shelter while cats hunt down mice and kill them. This easily relates to the Jews running and hiding from the Nazis as they were rounded up and killed in mass numbers. Spiegelman also introduces other animals such as the pig which portray the polish people. In my opinion, Spiegelman’s use of the pig was on a personal level. The pig is a symbol of greed and gluttony and in some religious views seen as an unholy animal. The Polish were apart of rounding up the Jews and making some of the first arrest in the story. As the story goes on some of the Jews seek shelter and hoping that the Polish will help in return. Almost all of the Poles refuse to help or ask for compensation in return or there was no deal at all. Rather than having moral values, they were materialistic and had no
It all tied together and made sense having cats versus mice. Mice are considered a natural prey to cat and a pest overall. This made sense to me because the Nazi views on Jews was that they were less than human and need to be rid of. Mice naturally live the life of hide and seek for shelter while cats hunt down mice and kill them. This easily relates to the Jews running and hiding from the Nazis as they were rounded up and killed in mass numbers. Spiegelman also introduces other animals such as the pig which portray the polish people. In my opinion, Spiegelman’s use of the pig was on a personal level. The pig is a symbol of greed and gluttony and in some religious views seen as an unholy animal. The Polish were apart of rounding up the Jews and making some of the first arrest in the story. As the story goes on some of the Jews seek shelter and hoping that the Polish will help in return. Almost all of the Poles refuse to help or ask for compensation in return or there was no deal at all. Rather than having moral values, they were materialistic and had no