Time and time again, people have written volumes upon volumes about the tragedies of the Holocaust. People haven't changed. Maybe they need a newer, bigger Holocaust. This shows how mundane the topic of the Holocaust has become, when it is such a powerful and poignant topic. The topic that I would like to address is surviving, living on, what happens next.
People fail to recognize that the survivors of the Holocaust survived, and live on.
MAUS explores not only a survivor's history in Auschwitz, but his life after, how he dealt with surviving. This paper explores not only the dread of the Holocaust, but the dread of surviving and living the rest of a life you never thought you would have. This is not your typical Holocaust sermon, which is one thing which I desperately tried to avoid throughout this paper. Vladek is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a saint because he survived. He was a miser, an annoyance, a lonely old man.