MAUS Often times, triumphs, struggles, and obstacles seem to represent significant events in an individual's life, but what is overlooked in situations of challenge can teach us life's most important lessons. When we go through situations in life in which we must see things that are disturbing, we tend to change our perspective on the world. In Art Spiegelman's comix, MAUS, we see numerous examples of how Vladek's experiences going through the Holocaust, psychologically scarred …
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…things the people who struggled in the Holocaust cherished and dreamed for. "We should learn to be more thankful." In conclusion, being non-trusting, cheap and even selfish at times, is what Vladeks's character was molded into during the Holocaust. People are not just born with a negative side to them, rather they learn from life's experiences, because at the end of the day, experiences are the significant ingredients in the life's recipe that change us.