Maus Volume 1 is a graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman, published in 1986. The novel tells the story of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust named Vladek Spiegelman, the father of the author. It talks about his experiences during the World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. The novel is different in it depiction of the Holocaust, because it uses animal characters to represent the different groups involved in the conflict. The Jews are depicted a mouse, the Germans as cats, and the Polish are depicted as pigs. The novel is split into two parts, with the first part primarily focusing on Vladek’s experiences before and during the war, while the second part deals with the author’s relationship with his father and the struggles of growing up as the child of a Holocaust survivor. The first part of the novel is a story about the horrors of the Holocaust. The graphic novel format allows the reader to see the images and how it plays out through the pictures. Spiegelman’s use of the animals adds an additional layer to the novel. By representing the different groups involved in the conflict as animals, Spiegelman’s use of animals also emphasizes how and lets the reader how the Germans were not seeing the Jews as actual humans. Maus Volume 1 is a graphic novel, and I don’t really see those a lot in writing, so I thought it was really good and I could come back to this writing at a different time because I enjoyed it.