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Please Help!! What is one metaphor that is used throughout the book and symbolism of it?

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The obvious metaphor and symbol would be the mouse personifying Jews. The Nazis considered Jews vermin so Spiegelman illustrates this by portraying the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats who hunt the mice.

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