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Why does Spiegelman depict his Jewish characters as mice rather than showing them as humans? How does the graphic novel form (comic) influence how you interpret the text? Does it render it more or less accessible than a traditional essay or story? How?

I believe that Spiegelman depicted his characters as mice to show how Jews were being exterminated in the same way that we kill mice when there seems to be be too many of them. Making the Jews mice shows a better effect on how they were being treated during the Holocaust. The comic gives me a view that the author wants me to see. It shows his image of how he views the Holocaust. I believe that the comic is more accessible than a traditional story, because it not only tells me what Spiegelman thought about that time period, but it also showed what his image was of that time.