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I Don't Speak German

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Spiegelman's Mouse Two

In mouse two, Art Spiegelman is talking to his then and current wife about how he should depict her in the book. In the text, she is depicted as a mouse, right? But in the character, or Spiegelman, in the text is saying, well, no, I should depict you as a frog because you were your French. And so I think Spiegelman is aware of these issues, at least by volume two. The second is a moment in Auschwitz when there is a German. There is there is a man, a man in the camp who is a Jew, who is a Jesus Christ.

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