Shading In Maus

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Copilot Jim Polehinke faced a catastrophic plane crash. In the hospital after finding out that he was the only survivor, Polehinke laid on his bed and cried. It not uncommon for survivors to feel an unreasonable guilt when they live through a devastating experience while others do not. Another term for this situation is called survivor’s guilt. In Maus, a father’s Holocaust survival story, Vladek Spiegelman, the father, and Art Spiegelman, the author, feel this type of guilt when those they love die around them. In Art Spiegelman's graphic novel, Maus, when exposing his father’s personal experiences, he uses the graphic novel techniques of shading and expressions as well as the rhetorical device of tone to convey his message that surviving
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“Maus” by Art Spiegelman is primarily a story of increasing struggle as Art’s father Vladek recounts his struggle to avoid the danger and despair of the Holocaust in World War II Europe. To fully encapsulate the many dimensions of this topic, Spiegelman employs many visual rhetorical tools; each with their own purpose and style. Sometimes, these rhetorical tools become such consistent staples of Spiegelman’s panels that they become integral to the story itself. One such tool is the shading. From…

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