Spiegelman chose deliberately animals for his story, because he wants that the reader associates certain characteristics with certain animals. But not only this metaphor is the reason why Spiegelman chose mice to represent Jews. Even the Nazis propagated that Jewish people are an inferior race.

Answer Expert Verified. The accurate statement about the excerpt and panel is A. both support the fact that millions of innocent Jews were rounded up and taken by train to concentration camps. The text that you had to read and the panel that you saw have both shown the fact that this terrible event happened.

How is Wiesel’s memoir effective in addressing the horrors of the Holocaust? It allows Wiesel to address a difficult subject in a deeply personal way. It allows the reader to emotionally and intimately connect with the author’s experiences.

Here are some of the most important lessons we learned from our favorite children’s books:

1. Setting out on an adventure is thrilling, but coming home is even better.
2. Always help those less powerful than yourself.
3. Everybody has “bad hair days.”
4. You can only truly be sure of what you feel in your heart.

Maus Themes

• The Holocaust and the Responsibility of its Survivors. Art Spiegelman, the author and narrator of Maus, is the child of two Polish Holocaust survivors: Vladek, his father, and Anja, his mother.
• Family, Identity, and Jewishness.
• Grief, Memory, and Love.
• Guilt, Anger, and Redemption.
• Death, Chance, and Human Interdependence.

“Maus” is a beautifully written graphic novel by Art Spiegelman which tells the story of a Jew during the Holocaust. One of my favorite things about “Maus” was the use of allegory. Each race in the piece is represented by a different animal. The Jews, for example, are portrayed as mice.

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Spiegelman had two stories he wanted to tell: the story of how his father and mother survived the Holocaust, and the story of his relationship with his father in the present.

Richieu dies during the war, when his Aunt Tosha poisons him to prevent him from being captured by Nazi soldiers during the evacuation of Zawiercie. Though they never talked about him to Artie, Vladek and Anja kept Richieu’s photograph in their bedroom throughout Artie’s childhood.

Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman, (born February 15, 1948, Stockholm, Sweden), American author and illustrator whose Holocaust narratives Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) and Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (1991) helped to establish comic storytelling as a sophisticated adult literary …