Well, Maus II was a combination of both. It showed a part of history in a way never seen before and changed people's views on the camps themselves. The way Spiegelman drew his father's narrative and his experience of being with his father was a completely different way of telling the story. As for emotions, J. Spencer Clark, a professor at Utah State University, said this about reading graphic novels versus simply learning about historical events: "[I]t's easy for people to view historical events as inevitable ... This type of explanation or view can distort or dissolve understanding of human agency in historical events. [College students] were able to recognize historical agency instead of viewing some historical events as inevitable” (Clark 2013). ) Clark is saying that because of the visual effects of the graphic novels, students were able to see the actual processes of events that lead to certain events, not just the fact that a big event was going to happen no matter what applied to Maus II because it puts the reader in the shoes of Art's father in the concentration camp, and even though the reader knew Vladek would make it out alive, he still felt all the emotions Vladek felt. This change in emotion towards the camps is due to the fact that the book is a graphic novel. Watts, A