Maus, My Thesis

My thesis for the upcoming essay will be a bit muddled or maybe clear as day. My thesis will be something like this "Maus effectively argues the impossibility of commemorating such an event as the holocaust. I come up with this theory from the analytic readings we did in class, which i was late to arrive! But i do see the holocaust being almost impossible to accurately place under one such "transcendental" story. We can never do this as there are so many stories, emotions, and lives that happened throughout this time that we would never be able to construct one large story to fit all of these. As such it puts a satire on all history books, monuments and museums of the holocaust. Art Spiegelman shows this in almost every page of his comic book. From cover to cover the art work shows the mass people that were effected. He shows it through irony and satire. I would obvioously bring in writing of some of the philosophers in the Post Modern For Beginners book, that have critiqued the insufficency of history books and the likes. These sources would be the most pertinent to the essay that i would be writing. The difficulty i would have would be most likely quoting the text without summarizing the actual comic "scene". I might use some of the excerpts in Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud that Mr. D gave us from this i will bring in the section that he gave us about the different faces and different "titles" that these comics take. McCloud's theory or statement possibly on the icons that we give to such things can also be placved into my essay the most obvious of which is the Mouse head on each of the jewish people. All of this will be anaylized and hopefully become to be the best essay yet to come.