Maus II Pg. 95

Maus II, the third chapter, "...And Here My Troubles Began...," starts off with Vladek hunched over himself, sick. This sickness is Typhus that was brought on by the lice that were found in the hay on the train. He mentions how he "got a very hot fever and [he] couldn't sleep. Typhus!" (95). The gruesome part about this whole scene, however, is that when he needs to use the toilet he is always having to step on the dead bodies that surround it. He said how he could barely move once he was in there and that "you had to go on their heads, and this was terrible, because it was so slippery, the skin, you thought you are falling. And this was every night" (95). The imagery of the scene is one of which is very dark. Dark in term of both the stencil he used to draw the shades, and the expression of the dead faces. I feel he was very scared in that he was going to be next to die and that people would start to step on him. This is where I get the sense of darkness. The panels are also much larger than average comic panels thus he is trying to make a means of importance to the reader.