After read MAUS

World war II, it was biggest war that famous topic of sub culture. We can see watch this war from movie, cartoon and games for fun. However, we might know, we hard to see behind of war that contain big tragedy, but it is not only story for the victim by the victim, this story just shows man who lived that time by metaphor and natural view of writer who son of protagonist.  And that’s why this graphic novel is special.  

Author Art Spiegelman wrote this story depend on his Father’s life. This story shows relationship between Art spiegelman and his father Vladek. Art born after war is over however, his parents held in war mentally, and it cause Art feel sorry to his parents and also it cause problem too. Vladek and Art’s relationship is really worst and Arts drew all of that in his cartoon and even he drew he has responsibility of his mother’s death. However, Vladek has problem too, because he compared Art with his first son Leshu Spiegelman who die while WWII. Art knew it was kind of PTSD but it gives big stress and he gets mental illness from his father. This illness make Art get in asylum and it influence his mother Anya’s suicide.  ‘MAUS’ contain lots of Vladek’s survival story, but subsistence is this post war part that shows story after ending credit.  Every chapter reminds me this book is special, because this is not only typical survival story. Bladek is victim of war, but we can see his selfishness and hysterical character that hard to understand, even he is patient of PTSD.

            WWII part is typical story about holocaust, that shows lots of people’s characteristic.

Good people who did not agree to holocaust or people who shows opportunism. Sometime Vladek gets help from someone but gets in trap too and he lose his family and friend by war. Of course it influence Vladek’s PTSD but ironically he did not gets any lesson from war, and it shows at the post war part. When Vladek  and Art’s wife Françoise  were driving Françoise saw black man who was hitchhiking, and she let him in but Vladek was being really angry about black person ride car with him, because Vladek was racist too. How Ironic?