Maus Discussion - image

Image: pg 74. bug spray.

I talked about this image a little in the discussion but it still is the one that jumped out at me the most. Art was so nonchalant about killing the bugs, it's ironic and I drew many parallels with it. All of the characters in this book are animals, but they symbolize people. He said the flies were bothering him and just eating him up, so with a quick spray of pesticide they were killed and taken care of. I drew parallels with the Nazis killing the Jews, especially because the language they used was very similar. This image especially impacted me because it was the last of the reading. I was taken aback, and then went back and looked at it again. I think the thing that was the most shocking was the ease and the nonchalantness that Art had when he killed them, then said it was too cold and he went inside to read.