Vladek Spiegelman

fantasy action stories. In reality, there is more to graphic novels than just fiction. Meaning that they can also be of the nonfictional genre and one example of being Maus by American comic book artist, Art Spiegelman. Maus is a two volume-set story of Spiegelman's father, Vladek Spiegelman, and how he survived the holocaust. The graphic novel became famous for Spiegelman's use for representing different animals as different races. Mice portrayed as the Jews and Cats portrayed as the Nazi…

birth or one’s consciousness, is to risk having one’s own stories and experiences displaced, even evacuated, by those of a previous generation…These events happened in the past, but their effects continue into the present”(Hirsch, 107). In, Art Spiegelman Maus, the theme of the book was revolved around second generation trauma in father and son relationship. Art is the second generation child of holocaust survivor parents, and because of the situation that happen to his parents he grew up in an…

father, Vladek Speigelman went through in the Holocaust while facing the fear of being a Jewish in late 1930 early 1940, being hungry almost starving, and the scares of concentration camps. We see the effects of what happened to Vladek in his mannerist play out in present day with his son Art. Vladek and Art Speigelman…

Maus by Art Spiegelman is a story about the Holocaust, but in comic book form. It tells the story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, and his encounters during the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. At the same time, it tells the story of Art and his interactions with his father, as they relive memories together. Spiegelman uses visuals to discreetly convey the tragedies and horrors that surrounded the Holocaust. Spiegelman uses visuals to represent Vladek's feelings about losing a son. Vladek is talking…

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…

with his Father Vladek Spiegelman is emphatically depicted as a bipolar one. “Maus” explains the reason why. that Vladek Spielgelman was born and raised in Poland where he was living a comfortable and ordinary life married to his wife Anja. Spiegelman, as well, had a son, Richieu Spielgelman. Unfortunately, Vladek's life was about to change to an unimaginable horror. 1939 Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany which marked the beginning of World War Two, after Poland invaded Vladek, and his…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus tells a compelling story about his father, family and other people’s experiences during the Holocaust. Spiegelman didn’t only use comic as his way of portraying the Holocaust but uses animal metaphor to depict behaviors of disparate nationality and the identity of the characters. The portraying of animals as humans makes the reader accentuate more strongly on the horrific nature of the Holocaust; as these mistreated animals are indeed human beings. The use of animal…

in Poland and the death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began, are graphic novels written my Art Spiegelman. Chronicling the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of his father, Vladek, Maus I and II depicts humans drawn in animal form to tell the story of the struggles and horrors suffered by the Polish Jews at the hands of the Nazis. A recurrent theme throughout both novels is the idea…

shading portrays the loss of identity, sets the scene, and shows the guilt that Valdek felt during and after the Holocaust. On pages 51, 55, and 58, Spiegelman uses the pattern of prison stripes on the faces of the mice to portray a sense of loss of individuality. It is normal for the clothes of prisoners to have stripes on them, but when Spiegelman expands that pattern onto the full bodies of the Jews, it makes the reader understand the sense of lost individuality the Jews felt since the reader…

Odysseus and Vladek both show and receive xenia throughout their journeys. In The Odyssey, by Homer, Odysseus received a lot of xenia to help him throughout his journey. King Alcinous of Phaeacia says, “On the contrary, I can assure you now/ of passage late tomorrow: while you sleep/ my men will row you through tranquil night/ to your own land and home or where you please.” (VII.341-344). This xenia that King Alcinous shows, helps Odysseus go back home safely. In Maus II, by Art Spiegelman,…