2nd Half of Maus

In the second half of Maus, I find that much of the graphic art supported the effect that the Holocaust had on Vladek rather than Vladek's story. You can see that when Vladek is not telling a story that they are talking about money. One example is when you see Vladek picking up a telephone wire from the trash to make use of it later. You can see occasionally that there is an emotional feel in the book to set the tone of the Vladek's. An example of this would be when Spiegelman writes about his mother and how much grief they have experienced from her death. You can see that Spiegelman uses some pages of the book to place his other comic Prisoners on the Hell Planet: A Case History just to create that emotional appeal of the Holocaust. Much of the graphic artwork in that particular section displays the tragedy. This, however, has nothing to do with Vladek's story, but it does have to do with the extent to which Vladek's family has suffered in an ongoing tragedy.