Maus

Both Shindler’s List and Maus tells the story of the Holocaust in a creative and visual way that helps the audience understand the significance of this historical event. Each of these representations takes a different approach in looking and remembering the Holocaust. As a reader, I found it quite intriguing that Maus grasped my attention and maintained it throughout the book with its relatable content. On the other hand, Shindler’s List also did a great job at drawing me into the context in its…

In the second part of the book we see Art’s father become more and more candid on his experiences with Auschwitz, and of his wife’s Anja’s experiences in both Birkenau and Auschwitz. Art describes people that are ethnically-semitic in the second part of the book, as having mouse heads, so they are easily identifiable, without having to write exactly what they are. Throughout the second part of the book, we can see themes of how pangs of guilt, and torment that arise from living in the various…

Overview  Working title: “Readers of the Holocaust”  Tagline: This brief documentary follows a graduate student’s exploration of an unusual choice of textbooks in a high school classroom: graphic novels.  Estimated length: 15-20 minutes  Proposed date of completion: April 21st, 2016 Introduction: Goals and Voice of the Documentary  The overarching question I ask in this film is how graphic novels about Holocaust and other events of genocide are enabling experiential learning in high school…

Our main goal is to eventually rid society of ignorance. Haunted horrors of the Holocaust seem too terrifying to be true. Many people still don’t know about or believe that it happened. Even though extremely similar things could still be going on to this day. If change is going to happen in this world, subjects must be held responsible for their actions even under seemingly forceful instruction. Specifically the areas overseen by the Islamic State, because “The threat to those in the West,…

them think “Does this really happen?” Yes, many white men do think they know more than an African American man does and thinks he has more rights than his counter. The end scene is also humorous and makes one think. The scene shows the rap group Mau Maus drinking the liquor that was parodied as a “black people liquor” while celebrating the killing of Manray. Cops barge in and shoot everyone but the white man, who claims he’s one-sixteenth black and asks why he was not shot. This one claim is a…

Outline at least 2 ways in which the Holocaust could be attributed to economic causes. Explain by describing at least 3 economic actions of the Germans against the Jews. The Holocaust was a horrific time in world history with brutal murders to millions of innocent Jews. At the time of the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1925, Germany was in a state of economic turmoil. Many would ask how Germany or other European countries even allowed this type of dictatorship to happen. As absorbed as it may seem, in…

just existed in several years, Facebook achieved much success in the technology market not only in the country but the whole world. According to a survey do by Facebook, worldwide, there are over 1.71 billion monthly active Facebook users (Facebook MAUs) which are a 15 percent increase year over year, published by Zephoria in 2016. Also, Facebook has a significant impact on the economy which cost $227 billion dollars of global economic impact (Deloitte). Because of that huge number, many people…

people who can't ever imagine it? You can describe it through three techniques; pictures, repetition, and the need of new words. Although pictures can do so much, it can say the unspeakable by showing you. For example in art spiegelman’s graphic novel MAUS portrays the jews as mice and the nazis as cats. It gives you the thoughts of the mice while showing you what's happening to them. It also gives experiences where you can relate to.…

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” (Washington Irving) Irving writes of how love is the most enduring, and will grow if it is given back. It is something that is shared by the bond between a father and son. While, in most relationships there isn’t much affection shown, there is love within. Night a piece written by, Elie Wiesel illustrates the story of his experiences after being taken from his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania. He tells…

In the graphic novel Maus, the author Art Spiegelman chose the title “And Here My Troubles Began” to reflect the horrible events that happened to Vladek under the control of the Nazis. The prisoners caught lice as they were all sitting of the straw bundles in the barracks. The Germans checked everyone’s shirt for lice and “if it was any lice, you got no soup”(251). Vladek claimed that “this was impossible” as everywhere there were lice (251). This is an excellent example of how Vladek was…