Vladek Spiegelman

Art recalls that he hated helping his father around the house, as Vladek would believe that whatever Art did was wrong: “He made me completely neurotic about fixing stuff (Spiegelman 97). Further, he says that he became an artist, as his father could not compete with him in that area (97). For these reasons, Art not only resents Vladek’s attitude, but he also suffers from depression due to the responsibility he feels towards Vladek. In Lost, Treichel deals with identity issues, as a result of…

pervades Maus. In Maus, everyone is divided into their identity. Jews are mice, Nazis are cats, Poles are pigs, French are frogs, and Americans are dogs. It doesn’t matter who you actually are. You are labeled by your identity. The Polish priest that Vladek meets is portrayed the same as the Pole that wanted to learn English. It is a highly cartoonish way of depicting the actual horrors of identity politics that led up to the Holocaust and that actually happened in the camps such as the star of…

his father for a graphic novel he is making about the Holocaust and the experiences that he went through and truly saw firsthand. Two questions that I have gathered that do not have complete or clear answers after the given reading are regarding why Vladek, Artie’s father, did not want his personal backstory or incidents before the Holocaust in his graphic novel, and the other being why the author of the novel chose to depict the Jews in the book as mice. Right when are introduced into the book,…

In the survivor's tale Maus written by Art Spiegelman, Vladek's son Artie loves to interview him about his deceased mother and discuss both of their experiences trying to escape and survive in the concentration camps during the reign of Adolf Hitler. If i had to interview someone like Artie did to Vladek, I would have to interview my Grandfather Carl. My Grandfather Carl was a very busy man and a nice man at that. Some of the most interesting things he did was holding the position of Chief…

“As soon as I came back to Czestochowa, she called- once a day, twice a day...every day… we talked” (Maus I 16). This quote, although seemingly insignificant shows how important a family member happened to be for Vladek. For Vladek, Anja became someone who happened to be very important to him. And, when you have something to live for, you are very likely to survive many trials and tribulations. “No! We must stay together, we have made it this far. God will help us!” (Maus…

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…

alright then, I don't mind the company! Here let me show you what to do.” As the two of them work in the unorganized garage, the sun begins to set an array of colors streaked across the sky. Shadows engulf the once bright day as night falls. “Mr. Spiegelman! Charlie! Look what I have! Where are you? I brought you some lemonade.” A girl voice rings out across the yard and into the…

This family has two different situations that they are handling at once, where they live in the past that effects the future and the use of or lack thereof spending money. In the first book, Vladek makes several references to his first son Richieu. More so on how Artie was always compared to him. I know the feeling of being compared, when I was young my parents’ friends always compared myself to my three brothers, but it was over stupid little…

Argumentative Essay Ben Franklin once wrote, “Well done is better than well said.” In simpler terms, Franklin is stating that actions are better than words. While actions and words are both elements that can be manipulated to fit a given situation, one is usually more efficient in solving problems, defining character, and accomplishing goals. In the novels Unbroken and Maus, the actions of the characters prove to be the most vital asset in their survival by helping them overcome obstacles and…

They have different author’s purpose and points of view. They are similar in ways in which the author wanted to write it also. Both authors wrote their story in different ways, Spiegelman portrayed it from him listening to his father and then writing it down and turning it into a graphic novel. Wiesel portrayed his story from his point of view in a narrative, which tells the story like it is and no flashbacks, or jumps to the present…