Maus

The novels Night and Maus are two very different genres of novels. Maus, is a graphic novel, so instead of being mainly just words, it has lots of pictures and words, in comic format telling a story. Night, can be labeled as an autobiography, memoir, or a personal narrative. So it is clearly seen that these two novels are different genres. Even though they are very different, they can still be compared. How will two novels of a different genre be compared? This will be the question answered…

Memories and the Past Bleed into the Present Memories that are in the past, are in the past, right? But, do they still have an impact on one’s life? Throughout Maus I, a graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman, memories and a reflection of the past are exhibited as a prevalent motif. Vladek Spiegelman tells of his experiences as a Jew during World War II. With the progression of the story, the lasting impact of the War and the Holocaust becomes clear. Memories and the past can have an…

What this means is if people's lives are controlled by someone who has absolute power, It can cause them to want to do something about it. This can be anything from protesting to something larger like war. This theme is show in the following texts. Maus, Harrison and Bergeron and the movie Fury. The short story Harrison and Bergeron is about how people with special abilities in any area of work were brought down to make the world equal. It connects to the theme of “power and control” because…

resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.” If no one was resourceful or crafty (or accidentally invented anything), how would we be where we are today. Chances are we would all still be cavemen. There are some people that are very resourceful like in Maus, Hiroshima, and Anne Frank; The Diary of a Young Girl. That’s why resourcefulness is one of the best ways to respond to conflict. Hiroshima is a good example of resourcefulness. In the book the people had to use what they had left…

They depicted Jews specifically as inhuman, even vermin, in order to provide a scapegoat for the problems that their people encountered so they themselves would not be blamed. In the graphic novels, Maus: A Survivor's Tale and Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began,…

Have you ever thought you experienced something traumatizing? In the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman, Anja had experienced so much that she ended her own life. Anja had ended her life because she endured the holocaust, she lost a child, she had a mental illness, and she had postpartum depression. It is shown through her depressed facial expressions which were quite detailed in the story Prisoner on Hell Planet. Enduring so much and losing so much had finally been too much for Anja to overcome. Anja…

resolve conflict you must try and focus in the people you love. If you try and focus on these things then you will find the courage to be brave and be all these other things because when you are under pressure some people tend to work better. In the book Maus And the boy in the striped pajamas all these people focus on other people and are not selfish and think only on other people. People generally think that that the best way to cope with the struggles of survival is to be brave and do things…

Next to Yellow Birds Maus was my favorite. I like history and war history is particularly intriguing to me. This graphic novel was unique to me. The holocaust is an uncomfortable subject for most to talk about and Spiegelman wrote a comic to tell his father’s story. He kept the story serious and poked fun at only his own expense and his father never did he make light of the holocaust. To eloquently toe that line makes this novel a masterpiece. He was also able to express the lifetime effects of…

Written over a thirteen-year period, Maus: A Survivor 's Tale by Art Spiegelman, tells the story of the authors attempts to learn about and document his father, Vladek, and his mother, Anja’s experiences as Jews during the Holocaust and later as survivors in the United States. Spiegelman uses this opportunity to tell the story of his family 's history and relationships during and after World War II. The way in which Spiegelman documents his fathers’ history is peculiar in that Artie choose to…

can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by describing their struggles and comparing them to others.It also sometimes explains how it affects us currently.The Diary of Anne Frank, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Maus are great examples. The Diary of Anne Frank shared many personal struggles and the victims lives during the Holocaust. This was a primary source, providing us with information of Jews’ experience during WWII in Germany (The Diary of Anne Frank Act…