When students learn to read in elementary school, teachers teach students how 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 talk and walk upright. However, debate rages over what type of animal constitutes a good character and what type of animal constitutes a bad character. Comic book writers often used different types of animals that are naturally seen in the real world and determined what kind of role they would have in the comic. Furthermore the cartoonist would determine who should prevail, who should not, and their emotions towards each other. In the book titled Maus by Art Spiegelman, it tells the story of a mouse named Valdek Spiegelman, who is a Holocaust survivor, and his son Artie. . Artie writes a book about his father and the terrifying experience he went through while surviving the Holocaust. The book uses animals instead of human characters. The book features three main types of animals, each symbolizing different cultures during the Holocaust. Jews are symbolized by mice, Nazi Germans by cats, and 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 he is addressing. Power-hungry Nazis are symbolized as cats due to a cat's constant hunger and tend to be stronger than mice and pigs. The Jews are symbolized as rats to show how weak they were and how they were treated during World War II. Spiegelman focuses on the mice and the struggle Vladek faced... middle of paper... the way Ripley talks about comics and animals is the way humans have animal-like traits and behave like animals. The traits that emerge 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 having animals in comics and explain how humans tend to behave more like animals. Many different comics have animals in the stories and portray animals in many different ways. Some comics illustrate animals more as simple creatures, shy and distant from humans. Other comics write about animals and how they are treated more like humans with horrible characteristics. It is important to understand the animal and how it interacts in the wild to be able to compare it to a human in a short story comic.