Society is Vitreous

Society [so·ci·e·ty] (noun)
people in general thought as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values

A glass castle. A seemingly perfect and ideal structure marred by multitude of flaws. It is never complete nor ever will be completed. It is a fallacy; but a dream, an idea welding the individual grains of sand as a single material. Society is composed of multiple panels of glass, each supporting the other; all a part of a greater architecture. Society is both transparent and translucent; both clear
 and distorted. Society takes time to gather and melt as one. Some glass castles are built with a deeper understanding and are meticulously scanned again and again before placing even the first piece of the foundation; others are built overnight--however each one will eventually crack. Society is fragile. Society may stand against mild breezes, and light precipitation. But even in the eye of the storm, the glass castle will fall by the smallest pebble thrown against it. It will shatter, then crumble--fractured into a profusion of broken shards.

The vestigial communities of a once great society still exist, but are empty. Similarly to how Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz I (spiegelman 51) were both drawn seemingly desolate, the vacant communities represent isolation. Within a broken society it becomes every man for himself. Self-preservation becomes adamant regardless of what negative repercussions occur towards other members of the same society. Some members of society "r[u]n inside the toilets"(67), hid[e] inside pipes and hid[e] inside "[their] own block" composed of "several rooms...and hundreds of beds"(63) to avoid the punishments and the "selektion"(67).  But behind the selfish nature, small groups of the society began to band together to reform secretive cadres within the prison camps, helping one another with try to rebuild a broken obsolete society--two mice on each pipe (71).  

But although the glass castle has been reduced to microscopic granules, 
the granules are still of the same material:
Glass.

 With this in mind, regardless of how fragmented, how broken, how separated a society becomes--we still are of the same being. 

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much

Helen Keller

We have the same goals, same ideas, and that is what allows us to once again meld together--becoming stronger than that of the past. That is what will rebuild our glass castle, our Society. You just have to give It some time.