Among the plethora of holocaust and post memory works and creations, MAUS is a graphic memoir novel based on a true story of the author of the book Art Spiegelman’s typed oral conversation interview with his father Vladek Spiegelman. Maus documents His family's' experience as Polish Jews during the Holocaust and the complex relationship between the father and son. And Art Spiegelman also address his traumatic memory of second generation survivors. Spiegelman uses animals faces and masks, human bodies to represent different races of people to talks about this serious topic in a humor way and in the book Spiegelman also uses various objects as metaphors to represent different messages . The story is in cities within the United Stated, towns in
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People who experiencing or witnessing traumatic events often develop different symptoms because of the stress. And later we know it as the Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition. In MAUS, Spiegeiman draws his father Vladek begins to introduces his passed by leading Art to his old room. He goes on the stationary bike with a hand holding the handlebars and another holding the seat, and he says, “It's good for my heart, the pedaling"(M I 12). The panel he says the line, Spiegeiman added Vladek’s figure shadow lines, but everything in the room remain only the outline without shadows. In Vladek’s face I see vicissitudes, gloomy and miserable because he has to recall the memory before the War. Vladek had continues to be silenced for years, before Art is interested in his passed. Vladek then begins his life in Czestochowa, how he met Anja (Art’s mother), and his job as a textiles buyer/seller. Just like the ironic phrase at the entrance of Ashchwitz, “Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will set you free)”(M I 157). Vladek has developed the habit of always working. Even when he is telling the story to Art, he cannot stand himself doing nothing. Also, being weak is like taking his life
People who experiencing or witnessing traumatic events often develop different symptoms because of the stress. And later we know it as the Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition. In MAUS, Spiegeiman draws his father Vladek begins to introduces his passed by leading Art to his old room. He goes on the stationary bike with a hand holding the handlebars and another holding the seat, and he says, “It's good for my heart, the pedaling"(M I 12). The panel he says the line, Spiegeiman added Vladek’s figure shadow lines, but everything in the room remain only the outline without shadows. In Vladek’s face I see vicissitudes, gloomy and miserable because he has to recall the memory before the War. Vladek had continues to be silenced for years, before Art is interested in his passed. Vladek then begins his life in Czestochowa, how he met Anja (Art’s mother), and his job as a textiles buyer/seller. Just like the ironic phrase at the entrance of Ashchwitz, “Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will set you free)”(M I 157). Vladek has developed the habit of always working. Even when he is telling the story to Art, he cannot stand himself doing nothing. Also, being weak is like taking his life