eJournal Questions
Please answer the questions below.
To: pagnucci@iup.edu
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Subject: 481 Comics eJournal: Maus
Body of the Message:
(Copy the questions below into your email message. Type your answers after each question. Then send your completed eJournal to Dr. Pagnucci. Write answers that are as complete as possible. Note also that grammar and spelling will not be counted for eJournals, so just do your best.)
Your Full Name (include your full name at the top of EVERY EMAIL so I can give you credit for your work)
- How did Mausimpact your thinking about the Holocaust?
- Why tell the story using mice and cats? How would the story have changed had Spiegelman used human figures?
- How does the artistic style impact the story? Consider, especially, how the characters are drawn.
- The story cuts back and forth between Nazi Germany and present day New York? Why tell the story this way? How does this technique impact us as readers?
- Why does Artie call Vladek, his father, a murderer (p. 159)? What do you think of his accusation? What would be your own reaction to having someone destroy something as personal as your mother’s diaries?
- Can we really understand an event like the Holocaust? How does reading a graphic novel about such a tragedy change our relationship to the event?