Maus Essay

The books, Night and Maus, are two well known works of literature about the Holocaust and the traumatic toll it took on its victims. Night is a personal account of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust experience, however Maus is a graphic memoir about Art Spiegelman's father’s Holocaust experience. While both Maus and Night are pieces of literature about the Holocaust, the authors had very different reasons and motives for sharing their story. “Wiesel is a messenger to…

In Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman and “Metamorphosis” by Kafka, a heavy (and sometimes overwhelming) theme is alienation and dehumanization. While both texts discuss different topics and scenarios, their pivotal theme is what ultimately tie the stories together. Both authors use very different strategies to showcase the alienation and dehumanization based upon their story’s genre. Maus I & II is a very real and intense comic that gives a snapshot of what it was like to be a Jew in World War II…

Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, and Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, both focus on retelling the history of the Holocaust and the horrible crimes committed against its victims. With the Jewish population standing at over nine million, the goal of Nazi Germany was to completely dispose of the Jewish race and all other impurities of the world driven by their odium for them. "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things" (Pratchett 181). Beginning with the Germans, the…

Therefore, many books have been written to help students get a better understanding of this tragic time. Among these hundreds of books are Night, by, Elie Wiesel and Maus, by, Art Spiegelman. These books are very different from each other, but they both do a phenomenal job at educating people on the Holocaust. One may argue that Maus is a better teaching tool, however, Night, is a better book to teach Gr. 10 students about the Holocaust. Night is better at showing the effect the Holocaust had on…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a prize winning masterpiece work on history and memoir. The book narrates the story of Spiegelman’s father in Poland at the advent of World War 11 and how he turned out to be a second generation Holocaust survivor. This literary work draws so much comparison with Elie’s work in the book Night. Elie’s work is more of a memoir just as it is with Art’s work. These two characters survive a difficult period in their life and they therefore end deciding to put their personal…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus tells a compelling story about his father, family and other people’s experiences during the Holocaust. Spiegelman didn’t only use comic as his way of portraying the Holocaust but uses animal metaphor to depict behaviors of disparate nationality and the identity of the characters. The portraying of animals as humans makes the reader accentuate more strongly on the horrific nature of the Holocaust; as these mistreated animals are indeed human beings. The use of animal…

In the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman, his father, Vladek Spiegelman, goes through an adverse transformation resulting from his wife’s suicide, which alters his nature and makes him behave in an irrational way; however, the remembrance of the pain he experiences detrimentally affects Mala Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman and even himself, so this type of pain should not be remembered. While the pain formed from Anja’s suicide deeply resonates within Vladek, he is unable to get along with his current…

to go along with the book, Maus by Art Spiegelman. We decide to stay with the graphic novel idea for the project. We worked together at the library to complete the lesson plan. Jerrod volunteered to complete the graphic novel example for the lesson project. We used the online archives from The USC Shoah Foundation, which we provided several examples of the types of videos we expected students to watch and transform their stories into a short graphic novel, similar to Maus. The next day the…

In the book Maus 1 written by Art Spiegelman, page 33 portrays the horror and brutality during the holocaust. On page 33, Art shows a gruesome picture of four Jewish people hanging in front of a large crowd. Seeing these four people, it is shown what many Jewish people had to witness, and it demonstrates the true horror of the Nazi’s. Anjas father states that, the Germans intended to make an example out of them, these innocent people were hung in front of a mass of people for dealing goods…

Allyson Dismuke Maus Reading Assessment 13-3-17 I think the format of Maus is perfect the way it is for telling about the Holocaust because it gives a vague yet bold outlook on what Valdek is telling Artie and how he explained everything that happened to him and his wife Anja. I feel like everything with in the story and the way it’s told is great for how it was written, it gives the reader enough information on how the Holocaust was and maybe even a bit more with the type of characters…