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1. Allegory

2. Metaphor

3. Allusion

4. Personification

5. Symbolism

6. Theme

7. Irony

8. Foreshadowing

9. Flashback

10. Simile

Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistoryOverview

Title: Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistoryAuthor: Art SpiegelmanPublished: 1973 through 1991Category: Fiction—

Graphic NovelMemoirBiographyHistorical

Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistoryAbout the Author

Art Spiegelman is co-founder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of comics and graphics. His work has been published in the New York Times, Playboy, the Village Voice, and many other periodicals, and his drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries here and abroad. Mr. Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife, Francoise Mouly, and their daughter, Nadja.

Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistorySummary

Maus is a story within a story: Art Spiegelman, the son of two survivors of the Holocaust, tells how he interviewed his father Vladek about his Holocaust experience, and it tells the story of the father's persecution and survival. It is written in a comic book format, with various types of animals representing the various nationalities and religions (however, Jews are mice, no matter what nationality they are).

Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistoryGeneral Characters

Maus I• The Jews are represented by mice. • The Germans are represented by cats. • The Americans are represented by dogs. • The Poles are represented by pigs. Maus II• The Roma (Gypsies) are represented as gypsy

moths. • The British are represented by fish. • The child of a Jew and a German is shown as a

mouse with cat stripes.

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Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistoryMajor Characters

Mr./Ms. Zylberberg

Lucia Greenberg

Vladek Spiegelman

Anja Spiegelman

Mala Spiegelman

Richieu Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman

Francoise

Spiegelman

Maus I—My Father Bleeds HistoryUniversal Themes

Family GuiltSurvivor’s GuiltPast vs. PresentSurvivalLuckRace and ClassHolocaustDeathRelationships