Maus vol II: Narrative vs History by https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y en-us 2022-09-27 14:40:25 UTC 2022-09-29 14:55:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f42d.png hjm5465 https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315756952 Spiegelman's drawings of the Cremd are appropriately very cold. His drawing of the building involves very densely packed and dark crosshatching and in each panel drawing, there are no people around which is creating a very haunting and scary feeling. By leaving the panels void of life, Spiegelman is allowing the viewer to imagine what horrors that went on here. Adding to this sense of coldness is the map of exactly what the chambers looked like. Labeling each part of the gas chamber is giving the reader a deeper understanding of just how real this place was and is another visual tool adding to the sense of haunting that seems to consume this page and the ones around it. 

- Halle Middleton]]> 2022-09-27 14:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315756952 hjm5465 https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315757249 First person accounts helped Spiegelman write Maus when documentation didn't help. Even though Spiegelman has to do a bit of imagining to fill in gaps, the first person accounts are important for getting visual and other small details. With documentation purposely destroyed, relying on people to tell their stories is a common thread throughout the book, especially with his father. 

-Tess Murphy]]> 2022-09-27 14:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315757249 tkm5442 https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315759913 2022-09-27 14:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315759913 Timeline gbasavage https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315782451 These panels create a timeline of Spiegelman’s father’s time in the concentration camp. Vladek gives his best guess of how long he was there based on the amount of time he spent in each place or job. It is an example of a first person account; Spiegelman acquired this information by talking to a survivor. While the timeline itself may not be the most accurate, since Vladek had no real way of telling time inside the camp, the testimony itself could not be anymore authentic or true. 

-Grace Savage]]> 2022-09-27 15:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315782451 tkm5442 https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315807318 2022-09-27 15:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315807318 Interview with Spiegelman hjm5465 https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315820936
In the Interview, Spiegelman states that the "tapes are the core of what eventually grew into 'Maus'". This quote is emphasizing the importance of eyewitness testimony in his research and creation of the graphic novel. 
- Halle Middleton

Additionally, he says he "actually found a shrink who was a survivor of the death camp. So [he] was able to do this classic transference onto a father figure who was much more articulate and sensitive than Vladek was and worked [his] way into and through that, and then incorporated that into the book somewhere." This further emphasizes how important first person accounts were to Maus.
-Tess Murphy

 
]]> 2022-09-27 15:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315820936 gbasavage https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315824062 This article, specifically the fifth paragraph, talks about how hard it was for Spiegelman to research this topic, especially during this time. He recounts that he had to largely rely on firsthand accounts from his parents and other survivors and his own trips to the concentration camp in Poland. Because of how much evidence had been destroyed and Spiegelman’s limited resources, he says that every piece of information he needed for his book was “hard-won”, which shows the complexities that came along with undertaking a project like this and why Maus had to investigate so many different types of historical evidence. 

-Grace Savage]]> 2022-09-27 15:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315824062 "Words and Pictures Together": An Interview with Art Spiegelman tkm5442 https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315857250 This source solidifies the fact that Spiegelman went to Auschwitz himself to do research for the book. It also says that he used a lot os tapes and audio from first person accounts. He used "historical, personal, and family information" and pulled them together to form Maus.

-Tess Murphy]]> 2022-09-27 15:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tkm5442/gi09brw147zfke3y/wish/2315857250