There were so many moments depicted through out the first
volume of Maus that held great
pathos. For me, the moment that resonated the most was when Tosha, who was in
charge of taking care of Richieu, along with her children, decided to have them
take poison, rather than go to the gas chambers. This moment really makes the
reader think. It raises an ethical issue: was what Tosha did wrong, as they
could have possibly survived the Holocaust some way or escaped? Or did she save
herself and the children from an unspeakable horrible death? One can only
imagine, the difficulty that she would have faced in making this last desperate
decision. She must have truly passed the brink of holding on to any hope, and
fore saw only darkness possible within their futures. The reader in some ways
commends her from saving the children from what may have been certain death,
but also has to wonder if they lost their potential to overcome adversity due
to this choice.
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