Anja'nt You Happy I Didn't Make a Mice Pun?
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Anja'nt You Happy I Didn't Make a Mice Pun? One of the most standout and memorable parts of Maus is when Art Spiegelman does a bit of comic-ception and tells a comic within a comic with the story of "Prisoner on The Hell Planet" from pages 100-103. Now, these pages are filled with thematically resonant and rhetorically meaningful panels that could be analyzed. However, I find the standout panel of this section to be on page 102 when Vladek grabs the striped rectangular coffin, screaming out for Anja. Later on, at the end of page 127, Vladek begins to have another rant about Mala in the bank before complaining about remarrying and beginning to scream and cry for Anja. The parallels between both scenes are pretty obvious as both contain Vladek crying over losing Anja, but there's far more similarities between the two than just that. Notice how as Vladek cries on page 127, he clutches the lockbox w...