When students were learning to read in elementary school, teachers taught them to read comics, and as students we see that comics would give animals multiple human traits. Many comics replace animals and give them human-like characteristics, such as the ability to speak and walk upright. However, debate rages over what type of animal makes a good character and what type of animal makes a bad character. Comic book writers often used different types of animals that are naturally seen in the real world and determined what type of role they would play in the comic. The cartoonist would also determine who should prevail, who should not, as well as their emotions towards each other. In the book titled Maus by Art Spiegelman, he tells the story of a mouse named Valdek Spiegelman, who is a Holocaust survivor, and his son Artie. . Artie is writing a book about his father and his terrifying experience surviving the Holocaust. The book uses animals instead of human characters. The book features three main types of animals that each symbolize different cultures during the Holocaust. The Jews are symbolized by mice, the Nazi Germans by cats and the Poles by pigs. The reason Spiegelman uses animals instead of humans is because he wants to give the reader a better understanding of what type of animal symbolizes the different types of social classes being discussed. Power-hungry Nazis are symbolized as cats due to their constant starvation and tend to be stronger than mice and pigs. The Jews are symbolized by mice to show how weak they were and how they were treated during World War II. Spiegelman focuses on the mice and the struggle Vladek put up... middle of paper ...... the way Ripley talks about comics and animals is how humans have similar traits to those of animals and behave like animals. Traits that stand out in some humans are “the biology in a personality, the geographic location of where one lives, and the facts about a person and how they express it? » This would explain one interpretation of the presence of animals in comics and explain how humans tend to behave more like animals. Many different comics contain animals in the short stories and interpret the animals in different ways. Some comics depict animals more as simply shy creatures distant from humans. Other comics are about animals and how they are treated more like humans with horrible characteristics. It's important to understand the animal and how it interacts in nature to be able to compare it to a human in a new comic book..