The novel we're reading called Maus II by Art Spielgelmam portrays the holocaust and sort of what effect it gave on someone that actually had to go through it. I found an article that I thought would be very helpful in trying to attempt a lens analysis about Maus II. This article had interesting themes that geared towards survival, guilt on two levels, luck, the past and present, and race and class. I felt those themes or topics were quite acceptable and appropriate. The one, however, that I found most interesting was the past and the present. As I was reading the novel, I found that the book jumped tenses quite a lot. One minute it was present tense and the next, it was past tense. However, the part that I found most significant was how all in one sentence Spielgelman would jump from preset to past tense or vice versa. For example, on page one hundred and six of Maus II, it states, “I didn’t understand what is going on. But I was again here in German hands.” I’m honestly not quite sure what significance it may have but there were other pages, in the novel as well, that jumped out at me. As for the article, it talked manly about how effective the holocaust could be for someone like Vladeck. How he used to be wealthy, happy, and in love, and how after the holocaust, he turned sort of bitter, unhappy, and poor. Sometimes the past can really affect the way someone thinks. Not to mention, how Vladeck cannot let go of the past. It basically haunts him and once good example of this would be when he’s talking to Art and then all of a sudden calls him his first son that died during the war. He cannot let go of the past. But over all, this article had many good pointers.
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