Throughout the whole book, Spiegelman stays inside of the panels for his images. That is the most familiar form of a comic, staying inside of the lines. On page 157 of Maus, Spiegelman goes outside of the panels, and “bleeds” his drawings onto the rest of the page. On the bottom of the page, it is a drawing of the concentration camp Auschwitz with german soldiers. This is “bled” for many reasons. One reason is that the ending is very important to the book, and the plot. It is where Vladek and Anja’s real journey began in the concentration camps. They did not realize that was where they were going to end up, and it was a major shock to them. If this were in a panel and not “bled”, the reader would not understand that it is a major part. Since Spiegelman used regular panels on every other page in the book, the reader is able to tell that it is important since it doesn’t look like the format of the other pages.

This page is very meaningful, especially since it is the last page in the book. It is the last conversation between Art and his father, and they got into a fight. In the fourth panel, there is a jagged speech bubble coming from Art’s mouth. He was yelling at his dad because he burned all of Anja’s diaries from the concentration camps. The jagged speech bubble is to show that Art is very mad, and he is …show more content…
Page 155 is a very interesting page to look at, because the drawings are very precise, and the plot is rising. This is when the Germans find Art and his companions on the train, and they take them into concentration camp.at the Jews. It is easy for me to know what is going on because first, the Jews are sitting together on the train in disguises, and all of a sudden there are Germans with guns, pointing at them. At the end of the page, you see that the Jews have their hands up in a line, and they are walking towards the