Vladek Spiegelman

Art centralizes the book on the relationship between him and his father, Vladek, and the volumes of guilt faced. Throughout his story, Art feels guilt, remorse, and stress about writing his book on his father’s survival of the Holocaust. For example, “Just thinking about my book...it’s so presumptuous of me.... I know this is…

“‘The Jews are undoubtably a race, but they are not human.’ Adolf Hitler.” (Spiegelman 10) In grade 10 Canadian History, one of the topics students cover is the Holocaust. In the 2015-2016 grade 10 challenge class at L.C.V.I. students studied both MAUS and Night. Both MAUS and Night show the stories of Holocaust survivors, however, the protagonist in MAUS becomes a Nazi prisoner earlier during World War Two than the protagonist in Night. Both of these books can be used to teach students about…

and added pop of color. According to Wendy Creed (2008), “Maus uses a very unconventional medium through which to represent the Holocaust,” and I could not agree with her more. She states that, “Spiegelman has been highly criticized as well as highly praised (Creed 2008).” One strength that Spiegelman uses is the unique technique of combining comic art and narrative, to represent a new and innovative way to tell the survival story of Artie’s father. Evidently, the most rare aspect of the book…

most about the comic was that despite the simplicity of how it was presented, there is more complexity in the smaller details of the book that allow us to engage deeper with the intertwining layers of the onion that is Maus. Throughout the text Spiegelman outlines the division of power between races and people. His story acknowledges the persecution of the Jews from an insider and an outsider’s perspective, displaying not only the challenges of enduring the event but of living life after it.…

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is a graphic novel written about her life and the struggles and challenges she faces and how she overcomes them. Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, is a graphic novel telling the story of his father's experience through World War II. In both books, the role that government and soldiers takes is different yet similar. In Persepolis the government and soldiers are meant to keep people in order and suppress rebellious acts. In Maus the government and soldiers are there…

person after another jumped. She jumped into the darkness.” (p. 115). Anka was afraid, but she was no longer willing to let her life be dictated by others. Although her leap of faith led to her death, she gained something those others like Primo and Vladek lost. She found courage to resist however she…

the most surreal scenes in the comic is when one of the prisoners tries to convince the guards that he was German, and for one brief panel, Art redraws him as a cat as if his identity was unclear. Vladek pondered, “Who knows. It was German prisoners also….But for the Germans this guy was Jewish” (Spiegelman 2011: 210). The Nazis used race as a tool to imprison whomever they wanted. According to Donna Haraway, “Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory,…

English 1102. My very first class, an 8 AM, as a University of Georgia student. I had many feelings going into this class. I am not a morning person, so would I dread waking up in the mornings to go to class? I never felt my writing was perfect, so would I flunk my first college English class? I was used to high school classes, so would I transition into college smoothly? Little did I know, as soon as I sat down in my tiny college desk, I was about to be relieved. My teacher, Gale, changed my…

visited her house during the summer, and we would go to garage sales every Saturday or Sunday. She would bargain on many things, and if she didn’t get the price she wanted, she wouldn’t buy that certain item. I guess she reminds me of Vladek from Maus by Art Spiegelman, because he would do his best to save him money just like my grandmother. What were some new inventions or gadgets that came out when you were a child? Did you have any of them? PAULITA: Yeah, when I was 7 or 8 the TV was…

History Final The Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published on February 21, 1848. The Manifesto is a call to arms against capitalism and the bourgeoisie. They illustrate in simple terms so everyone can understand, that with the overthrow of unequal hierarchies of feudalism, came a split between classes because of capitalism. They state “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps - the…