The Sky is Falling

Page 33 of Maus is a pretty odd part of a comic.  In the first panel we see a continuation of page 32 where the mice are all staring out the window in horror of the Nazi Swastika.  IN the first panel we see one of the mice just plain and simple panicking over the flag and what he's heard about the whole Nazi thing.  And in the next panel we begin to see that the sky has been completely replaced with the swastika for the next four pages.  the black that we see in the sky (the part that has become the flag) symbolizes the really dark nature and atmosphere of the Nazi's business.  Throughout these four panels we things like the Nazis closing down Jewish stores, displaying the corpses of the Jews as warning and even brutally murdering one mouse in one of the panels.  The second outlying feature about the flag's replacement of the sky obviously indicates that that town is now under Nazi control and is simply not safe to live in anymore.  As for the things that are being said, we just see the mouse that was talking from the previous page talking about the incidents that occurred to his family, as well as the things he's heard. We also see that the Nazis are going about their business as the mouse is talking: this shows that his voice doesn't really matter in a time like this.  And obviously, in the last panel of the page, we get a sense of dramatic irony when we read the one mouse saying, "Let's just pray they don't start a war!" and as we all know, they eventually do.  Anyways, that's just my personal take on the page.  I've been known to interpret things in quite unusual ways at times due to the fact that I've been doing it since early high school , so if anything I said was a little too abstract, be sure to comment.  Thanks for reading