Spiegelman uses visuals to represent Vladek's feelings about losing a son. Vladek is talking with his son, Artie, about his experiences during the war. At this point, the Germans have started to take furniture from houses. Also, they have begun to grab Jews, no matter if …show more content…
On page 63, Vladek and the other workers line up on a road. The Germans marched them to the main courtyard and made them form lines by name. Vladek's dream of Parish Trauma come true. After, Vladek got on a train, thinking that he was going to Sosnowiec. It turns out, the Germans were going to kill each and every one of them. Nazis thought that Jews, and other ethnicities, were not worthy. Because of this, they started killing them in concentration camps and in other horrible ways. Maus presents the Germans as cats and the Jews as mice. The Holocaust was a game of cat and mouse. The Germans ran around, trying to capture Jews, much like cats trying to catch mice. Granted, there are good cats and evil cats, good mice, and bad mice, and so on. However, Maus uses these figures as an overall representation of what went on and for people to understand this horrifying story