Post 12 - Zarif

After finishing the first volume of The Complete Maus, I could found few moments that interestingly, yet chillingly shows its storyline pathos that intrigue my nonconservative feelings throughout the book. Spiegelman's work had gradually transitioned me from being only visually perceptive to both visual and text engaged. The Complete Maus had now become one of the book that would always be remembered for its every aspect of the plot, especially after going through weeks of discussion for the messages that were found throughout the book. I could start with the earliest part where Lucia Greenberg begged Vladek, on page 22, to marry her as Vladek had already fallen in love with Anna Zylenberg. One could tell that the image of Lucia holding on to Vladek's leg had become quite cliche yet still effective in sending the message across to the readers. This is somewhat quite exaggerating as it only occurs in the movies or dramas, or at least in my opinion that is. 

Moving onto the deeper situation in the book where Vladek was on the train heading to bielsko where he founds himself and the rest of the jews observed quite erratic incident of the Germans, where first introduced in this book, insults the Jews in many ways on page 35. This somewhat shows the lightest picture that one could imagine as the portrayed animals-reflecting-humans seems slightly intolerable since the audience had already followed along the main charcter and its story plot of this chapter. It would be very disturbing to see the very image of human themselves to be displayed in such low standards which comes to mind on the rhetorical use of dehumanizing ourselves from the beginning. The fact that it starts to turn ugly on page 50, where Vladek accidentally shot the the moving tree, which turns out to be the opposing german army. On this particular page the human-like was given to the mice Vladek which shows the trembling fear he had after shooting the person to death.