Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a novel about the Vladek and his experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. It narrates the reality of the Holocaust wherein millions and millions of Jews were systematically killed by the Nazi regime. One of the themes in the story is racism which is evident in the employment of animal characters and its relationship with one another. The Jews are mice, Nazis are cats, Poles are pigs and Americans are dogs. Holocaust and racism are two inseparable elements. This is
sample LA), or movies—need to be in italics. Names of short works—such as short stories, articles, poems, or sitcoms—need to be in quotation marks. All of the works in this class are short works except for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Trifles, and Maus, so for the most part you will be using quotation marks. 22. In America, periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks. (The opposite is true in England.) Example: In the short story “The Swimmer,” the main character feels that . . . . Do