Maus Essay

In the graphic novel “Maus" by Art Spiegelman, he is portraying his father’s life and experience during World War II. He has re-created his father’s life story through graphic novels and has the people portrayed as animals: the German’s are cats, the Jewish people are mice and the Polish people are pigs.The graphic novel follows the life of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman and the struggles, the loss and the consequences WWII had on their family and the strict ways of raising Art Spiegelman, and the…

The author begins by using figurative language employed by Dale Chihuly to describe his collection of artistic products. Willard argues that he never knew that he was a blanket collector he opened the book entitled Chihuly's Pendletons and Their Influences on His Work. Chihuly’s Pendleton is an exciting text that provides an elaborate exposition of his career as a pre-eminent artist in the United States. His flamboyant and contorted glassworks are a unique and conspicuous trademark displayed…

Literature review carefully examines with respect to graphical novels of sub-genres and importance of visual presentation in graphic novels. Partially a few of references are studying the psychology of children with traumatic experience in which are used further to develop Katarina Muroaka as a believable and real character. Other references are studying target audience of Horror themed graphic novels, popularity and iconic influences of graphic novels and power of visuals in comparison to text…

The Mark of War What is war? When I first started this course, I had a very vague idea of what “true” war was. I have never been in war and neither have I had family members or friends experience war in any way. War is often incomprehensible to people such as me and yet I realized that war carries with it an unbelievable amount of tragedy. I used to always be under the impression that war is an evil that ends once the war finishes. What I realized about war however was that not only is…

In Franz Kafka’s short story, The Metamorphosis, the reader peers into the life of the Samsa family, seeing the metamorphosis of not only the hard-working son, but also of his three other family members. Over the course of the 100 years of production of The Metamorphosis, there has been many discussions on what Kafka was trying to convey in his morbid and saddening short story. Many discussions include the idea of humanity, and if Gregor still kept his humanity after transforming into a ‘vermin’…

The Scarlet Ibis is a book written from the first-person point of view It explains the narrator's point of view of his dead brother's life, it also illustrates symbols that go along with the topics. A symbol is a mark or character used as a representation of an idea. Like when the narrator talks about how when Doodle was born he had a physical impairment which made people believe he was going to die he uses the coffin to demonstrate his struggles. Even after he didn't die he still didn't have…

Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart explores the effects of traumatic experiences to demonstrate their potential damaging behavior. Through the deuterogamist, Miu, Murakami is able to construct a surreal effect that display Miu’s own construction of reality (??). In the midst of this, Miu’s transformation from a vehement to apathetic character demonstrates the dangers of allowing supremacist ideals dictate one’s life. More importantly, that of what is lost In Miu’s character finds an outlet in…

While Artie is interviewing Vladek (page 110), his father, the author depicts their environment and the way they interact with each other through slightly simple and iconic drawings. Spiegelman uses bushes and fence to show that they are moving along or walking, he changes the background every panel to give it that effect. Every other panel in this page is borderless creating a lack of gutters throughout the page; each panel pops out and is differentiable. The object that draws the most…

The Effect of Representation: Separation from Emotion and Situation Through the use of comic strips in his novel, Maus, Art Spiegelman illustrates his father’s experiences as a Jew in Poland during the rise of the Nazi regime. Although depicting people as animals, (Jews as mice, Polish as pigs, and Nazis as cats), seems odd, these representations help readers fully understand the inhumane conditions of the Holocaust Era- in that none of the participants were treated or behaved with human-like…

author 's life.(citation) In Maus, it is talking about the relationship between the writer and his father. In the books which have large scale of talking about the history of his father in the Hitler century. Besides, the writer of Maus is using first and third person to present the life story of he and his father. It involved lots of personal feeling and subjective view of the writer. Moreover, the writer uses metaphor, symbolism, and allegory which the critics think that Maus may be fiction…