Vladek Spiegelman

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…

animals as characters, Art Spiegelman incorporates a unique art style to illustrate his parent’s past during the Holocaust in his graphic novel, Maus. In the beginning of the Book II of Maus, Spiegelman introduces the aftermath of the critical and commercial success of his graphic novel, as well as personal events that occurred after the publication of Book I (Spiegelman, 201). In the opening panels of Auschwitz: Time Flies, the perspective and portrayal of cartoon Art Spiegelman serve to…

Holocaust but surviving its impact. It can be easily seen that the effects of the war are long lasting and Vladek was undeniably traumatised by the ordeal. Despite physically surviving the war, in some ways Vladek did not survive. The Holocaust also impacted Art, even though he did not directly experience it, and Vladek’s relationship with Mala. Despite physically surviving the war, Vladek did not escape the emotional trauma that accompanied his survival. Vladek’s continuing anguish is…

Maus In the graphic novel, “Maus the survivor's tales” by Art Spiegelman, took place in Poland. This graphic novel is based on the story that Vladeck told Artie about War World 2. The main characters that take place in this novel are Vladeck, Artie, Anja, the Germans, the Nazi, and the Polish. There are many things happened during this time and Vladek’s survival was based on choices that he makes. There are many choices that vladeck made in WWII. One of the resourceful things that he…

The Holocaust has done a lot of things to Vladek, in Art Spiegelman’s Maus. However, the most noticeable thing it has done, is that it has changed who he was as a man. Before the Holocaust, Vladek was once a man who was kind, wealthy, and exceptionally resourceful, and his marriage with Anja was full of genuine love. Afterwards, he is definitely not the same man. He is stubborn, easily irritable, and stingy to the point where it’s comical. This certainly puts a strain with his current wife Mala,…

In the graphic novel, Maus I, by Art Spigelman, the cartoonist reveals the relationship between his father, Vladek and him. Initially, the graphic novel shows the flaws between Vladek and the cartoonist attachment to another. Therefore, both Vladek and Art Spigelman’s personality crashed into each other in several incidents throughout the whole graphic novel. Additionally at the opening of Maus I, Art Spigelman demonstrates the connection between his father and him when was a young boy. Art…

The Underwater Welder Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel, The Underwater Welder, is about Jack Joseph and his supernatural experience underwater when he discovers an old watch which he received from his father when younger, which brought back nostalgic memories of his father (who passed away) and life in general. The unique artwork and the way The Underwater Welder is presented makes the reader experience the characterization of Jack, the theme of the story, and the plot. Lemire tends to have a pattern…

Art Spiegelman is the author of Maus one and Maus two. Spiegelman’s books are the story of his father’s holocaust experience. The unique perspective of Maus is that it is told in the form of post memory. Post memory is the second generation telling the memories of the survivor generation. Spiegelman is a second generation witness and tells the story of his father who is part of the survivor generation. Second generation is extremely important because they are the ones who keep these memories…

In the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman, his father, Vladek Spiegelman, goes through an adverse transformation resulting from his wife’s suicide, which alters his nature and makes him behave in an irrational way; however, the remembrance of the pain he experiences detrimentally affects Mala Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman and even himself, so this type of pain should not be remembered. While the pain formed from Anja’s suicide deeply resonates within Vladek, he is unable to get along with his current…

Throughout Maus, indications of strain between Spiegelman and his father can be observed at the beginning and end of each chapter, as the only direct contact between Spiegelman and his father happens when Spiegelman arrives to listen to his father and when his father ends his story. One indication of the strain is that Vladek reduces Spiegelman to the status of a child rather than an adult confronting his father about his life as the story being told by Vladek is not a typical bedtime story, it…