Maus

Jewells Ellis                                                                                                                                         810

03/25/16

The theme of the book Maus by Art Spiegelman is inequality. Throughout the whole book when Vladek is telling Art his story during the Holocaust, I noticed the Jewish people and the Germans were not treated equally.

The Jewish people had a much harder life than the Germans. They had to work, were starved, tortured, and barely had clothes that fit. During the winter, if a Jewish person had shoes that were too small or too big, he or she would have to go out in the snow barefoot. Usually, when a Jewish person asked for better clothing, they would get beat. In the book, the Germans were treated like the kings and queens and the Jewish were treated like slaves. Germans were provided with fit and clean clothing, had plenty of food, and were treated as a higher class. They were more taken care of, which was not fair to the Jewish people. Most Jewish people would rather die than to live during the Holocaust at that time.

In conclusion, the book Maus taught many readers about inequality in the 1930's-1940's. Nowadays most people are treated the same, even though there are still some that aren't. Back then it was much more worse and most of the time people were killed for no reason or just little things. This book shows you how much the world has changed.