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A 3 page analysis of Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman and Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds. No additional sources cited.
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the reader a graphic illustrated novel, done up in a comic book style. As such the settings of the novels become even more pronounced and important, more tangible and visualized.
The following paper examines the authors works, separately, as it involves the presentation of setting. Maus I and II Spiegelmans Maus I and Maus II are both very entertaining
and dramatic books that look at how people deal with the Holocaust, primarily the main characters father. The novels move from modern times to fantasy to tragic history and all
the while there is an understanding, through the characters, that they are all trying to deal with the past and find some sense of meaning and hope in life. This
is done through, as mentioned, a graphic novel set much like a comic book that seems purposefully done in this manner to truly pull the reader into the setting, the
history, and enable the reader to feel they are watching what is taking place. Without the graphic novel depicting settings and characters the reader would not feel nearly as connected
to the story. For example, on page 11 of Maus I the reader/viewer is presented with the interior of the home of
his father and mother. While so simple in its black and white presentation there is a very real and complicated feel to the setting. There is the staircase which clearly
illustrates to the reader that the father and son are moving up to an apartment, and inside the apartment the mother has taken the sons jacket and is putting it
on a hanger, with what appears to be an open closet behind her. In such a simplistic, and modern, setting the reader is pulled into the story in a very
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