Summary Of Maus By Artie Spiegelman

The story of MAUS is one about the Jewish struggles and loss of identities during the Holocaust. During the Second World War, Jews were stripped of their homes, businesses and identities, leaving them with nothing but their moral values. What happened to follow was equally as terrifying, for they lost everything during these years, and once it was over they all had to start from the ground up. Artie Spiegelman is the author of MAUS, and the son of Vladek Spiegelman, a Holocaust survivor. Artie depicts very real accounts told to him by his father, many audiences were shocked at “…Spiegelman 's goal of rendering his father 's story exactly, warts and all, to make it more truthful, more recognizably human…” Reilly wrote in a 1986 review of the novel. For Artie, growing up with his father was very difficult at times as Artie always felt unknowledgeable
It took him many years because of how difficult it was for him to fully come to proper terms with what happened to his parents. Writing the comic serial was Artie’s way of over coming his insecurities concerning being a Jew who did not experience life through the Holocaust. Through Artie’s clear uses of animation, self-narrative and tied to his survivors are all factors to the difficult problems he had to overcome while writing this graphic novel. Artie had a difficult life regardless of not having been around for the Holocaust. This was a constant issue that Vladek seemed to have with him. It took Artie many years to realize that this guilt that his father had put him through while growing up was not due to him not having been around for the Holocaust, but more so that his father was guilty that he, unlike so many, did survive. As he completes the graphic novel, the reader hopes that Artie is able to find some peace in knowing that his father’s story was told, and in a manner that brings a stop to his insecurities of being less of a