... our lives we have read, listened and watched films, that have portrayed an image of the Holocaust in our minds, such fantastic films as "Shlinders List" which have given us a good portrayal of what actually happened, but these secondary presentations do not even come close to experiencing the Holocaust first hand as did Vladek, Art Spiegelman portrays the Holocaust in a very different and original manner. Spielgelman's alternative comic Maus: My Father Bleeds History uses animals to tell, in comic book style, not just the story of how Spiegelman's father survived the Holocaust, but also the story of Art Spiegelman trying to understand both his mother's suicide and his dodgy relationship with his father. While many critics have objected to Maus' and it's representation of the Holocaust, it's style and structure in comic book form, uses animal characters, and its split time frames to serve not merely as a ...

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