Analysis Of The Poem Maus My Father Bleed History Essay

The curiosity of Artie about Vladek saying that Anja was not pretty, during the fight between Vladek and Lucia, incites Artie to interrupt Vladek’s story of the past. The interruptions that Art Spiegelman writes into his comic, Maus My Father Bleed History, breaks up Vladek’s story about surviving the Holocaust, which is what happens in the scene with Vladek and Lucia’s fight. Spiegelman uses the interruptions of Vladek’s story to lead out of it and then back into Maus to assist in clarifying information for the reader, to show the father-son relationship between Artie and Vladek, and also to explain how Maus was written. The incidents that Spiegelman uses within his panels and text work as a way to give insight into how Artie and Vladek’s father-son relationship works. A case in which Artie and Vladek’s relationship is shown is right after Vladek tells Artie the story about Lucia and he says, â€Å"But this is what I just told you- about Lucia and so- I don’t want you should write this in your book† (Spiegelman 23). To help interrupt Vladek s story Spiegelman makes the panel in which this dialogue takes place have no border around it, which gives the panel a sense of breaking up the story that Vladek was telling to Artie. Vladek interrupting his story shows that while he felt this was important information for Artie to know, he does not want it in the comic. Thus this story being in the comic along with Artie’s reaction in the comic show the reader the differing views and the