Maus Essay

the past or the unresolved demons they carry from past traumas. When you don't deal with your past traumas or reflect on past experiences the pain from them have a greater chance of showing up unpleasantly in your future. The most pivotal scene of Maus II that deeply reflected Vladek’s pain was in Chapter three while he was driving with Art and Francoise. When…

Both Art Spiegelman and Anthony Doerr have unique writing styles which are evident throughout each novel. Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus: A Survivor's Tale, has a rather conversational writing style. The plot follows Vladek's less than perfect English dialect while he tells his Holocaust experience to his son, Art. Anthony Doerr, the author of All the Light We Cannot See, possesses more of a narrative style, considering the point of view is third person omniscient. The story is told by…

classify it as literature or a comic, should it be taught in the classroom? Two well-known graphic novels are Maus by Art Spiegelman and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Maus takes place during World War II and is about Spiegelman interviewing his father who is a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Fun Home is the story of Bechdel’s life and her relationship with her parents, specifically her father. Maus and Fun Home are worthy to be taught in school curriculum and to be considered…

categories, superior and inferior. The superior race were the Aryans, and the inferior races were the non-Aryans. This division caused tension among the non-Aryan races and they started to compete with one another to stay alive (Perry 455). The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman is a graphic novel involving the author’s Jewish father, Vladek, retelling his experiences in Europe during Hitler’s power. The illustrations help the readers’ understanding of Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany. In one…

“Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …” (1:6) The story “Maus” starts with how Vladek Spiegelman, who lives in Poland, meets Anja Spiegelman. In Poland, where the World War II broke out, the whole family was forced to relocate into the Jewish ghetto and eventually displaced the family. Art wanted to make a story about the story of his father, who lived in Poland, and wanted to write about war, and finally, he…

separation or even death. A primary example of families suffering is shown by cartoonist Art Spiegelman in 1986, when he released a graphic novel detailing for readers the life of his father Vladek during the Holocaust. In Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale”, readers see through the Holocaust survivor Vladek’s…

Holocaust was a genocide during World War II which was an brutal killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazi. With many survivors left after the Holocaust some was able to tell their stories such as Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman the authors of maus and night. Maus and Night are two books that are mainly told on what was happening during the Holocaust. With both authors having some experience about the Holocaust they provide the world with a better understanding on what was happening in the camps…

As a result, victims often suffered from post-war trauma. Traumatic responses, by first generation Holocaust survivors, were often projected onto their children. Authors Art Spiegelman and Hans-Ulrich Treichel illustrate the above in their memoirs Maus I and II and Lost. Both the parents in the memoirs re-enact their repressed emotions, regarding their experience in the Holocaust, through their children. Whether it is the war, losing a sibling, or parent, the guilt of the loss is projected onto…

achieved. The son of two Holocaust survivors, Art Spiegelman, a cartoonist, used comic books to carry on the legacy of his father before, during, and after the Holocaust. He extensively interviewed his father, who survived the Holocaust, and created Maus, a series of graphic novels depicting his parents’ struggles before and after the war, which would soon become two of the most popular depictions of the Holocaust ever made.…

ever imagine it? There are three techniques that answer these questions; pictures, repetition, and creating new words. If words can’t help you then pictures can, by showing you the unspeakable. One example of this is in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel MAUS, where it shows the experiences of mice (Jews) in concentration camps which are being held by the cats (Nazis). Spiegelman draws it in a way where the reader is put in the mices’ point of views, which ends up describing the unimaginable. So,…