Well I would like to discuss why Spiegelman used animals to depict real people, and personifying the animals to the extent that you soon forget while reading that they are mice, cats, and pigs. It might be used to lighten up the mood of such a horrific time; but I feel throughout the story he is trying to make us overlook the animals. I would assume that most people are going to identify the characters with humans and at one point completely forget that Spiegelman drew animals. While interpreting the comic and noticing that all the animals are the same size, really makes it even more human like. Then on page 23 when he is talking about his father’s personal affairs, he says that it will make it more human in bold letters. I feel as though he is really trying to help us identify the animals with humans. So I wonder why he just didn’t use human characters with little detail similar to the drawing in the comic. What other motives might he have had to use animals and do you think there is a reason he used the traditional cat/mouse relationship. I feel like his choice to use the animals, and those specific animals has more meaning than what might be on the surface.
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I think that Spiegelman used animals to give the reader a constant metaphor throughout the story. It's a second, and bolder, representation of the roles the Jewish, Nazi, and even Polish people were forced to take on during this time. I feel that it also keeps the reader thinking about how the Jews were always being hunted by the Nazis in the back of the their mind.
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