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Graphic Novel
From THE COMPLETE MAUS by Art Spiegelman. Maus, Volume I, Copyright ©1973,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986 by Art Spiegelman. Used electronically by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC
Look at this image from Maus. How does the image aid a reader’s understanding of the Holocaust?
The image makes the number of people affected by the Holocaust easier for the reader to grasp.
The image shows the reader how few people in Sosnowiec were sent to the concentration camps.
The image shows a large group of faceless people, which makes the Holocaust less real to the reader.
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The first statement is correct: the image makes the number of people affected by the Holocaust easier for the reader to grasp.
Explanation: Spiegelman draws a dense mass of small, similar figures to convey scale and the overwhelming number of victims. Their anonymity and repetition emphasize both the vastness of the tragedy and the way individuals were stripped of identity—so rather than making the Holocaust less real, the faceless crowd reinforces the enormity and dehumanizing effects. The second statement is incorrect (the image shows many people, not few).
Explanation: Spiegelman draws a dense mass of small, similar figures to convey scale and the overwhelming number of victims. Their anonymity and repetition emphasize both the vastness of the tragedy and the way individuals were stripped of identity—so rather than making the Holocaust less real, the faceless crowd reinforces the enormity and dehumanizing effects. The second statement is incorrect (the image shows many people, not few).
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