explain how this quote reflects the overall mood of the text: "Nobody can understand... what it is... to lose one's home…To lose your entire family…Your entire community… Everything you care about… Nobody can understand... unless they've experienced it themselves." - Maus by Art Spiegelman
This quote reflects the overall mood of the text in Maus, which is one of deep despair, isolation, and the overwhelming sense of loss. The narrator expresses the incomprehensibility of losing one's home, family, and community, noting that unless someone has directly experienced it themselves, they can never truly understand the depth of this pain. The repetition of the phrase "nobody can understand" emphasizes the feelings of profound loneliness and alienation that permeate the text. The quote reveals the extent of the devastation inflicted upon the characters and their inability to convey the extent of their suffering to others.
