The only
similarity Vonnegut and Speigelman share in their stories is the topic of WWII.
While both novels center around WWII, they contain completely different story
lines. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is
written as a science fiction novel from the perspective of an American soldier
who survives the bombing of Dresden. Aliens and time travel are then inserted
into the story, which causes the reader to become confused and question what to
take from the novel. It is difficult to tell if the outrageous parts of the
story should be taken seriously or symbolically.
Speigelman’s
Maus is drastically different from Slaughterhouse-Five. Maus is a graphic novel written from the
perspective of a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Speigelman uses animals to
depict different races of humans. For example, Jews are mice, Non-Jewish Poles
are pigs, and Nazis are cats. Compared to Slaughterhouse-Five,
this novel is much clearer and more straightforward. The illustrations capture
the reader and help explain the story so there is no confusion for the reader.
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