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The film is an allegoryAn allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein "to speak in public") is a figurative representation conveying a meaning other than and in ad for the terrible conditions immigrants to America faced at the turn of the century (the mice represent the Jewish immigrants, and the cats their Anti-Semitic tormetours), and is similar in this way to Art SpiegelmanArt Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist. Born in Stockholm, Spiegelman was a major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s, contributing to publications such as Real Pulp Young Lust and Bizarre Sex''.'s MausMaus: A Survivor's Tale is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman which recounts his father's struggle to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew, while also following the author's troubled relationship with his father, and the way the effects of war reverberate.