Art Spiegelman’s comic “Maus” provides a unique way to learn about the Holocaust. Through comics‚ Spiegelman allows each reader to interpret the text in their own way. Spiegelman ventured away from the standard textbook method of describing history with specific details for each subject matter‚ and instead‚ drew his comic in a way that allowed each reader to form their own conclusions on the historical event. Spiegelman used unique elements in his comic to tell the story. Perhaps the most unique
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Maus 1 by Art Spiegelman is a story that depicts his father’s (Vladek) survival through Nazi Germany and through concentration camps. The first thing you would have noticed in this book is that it is not your normal novel‚ it is actually written like a comic. Doing this allows the reader to actually enjoy reading the story instead of getting bored and putting it down‚ or getting bombarded with mental images of violence‚ even though this is about surviving in Nazi occupied Poland. Throughout The
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Maus‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ is a graphic novel in which the characters are represented as animals. The comic collection is full of juxtapositions. Vladek and Artie represent the opposition of past and present. The story also illustrates the opposition in the cultural contexts of Nazi occupied Poland and Rego Park‚ New York. The format of the book contrasts images with language‚ and the characters of the book depict the opposition of father and son. These juxtapositions serve to emphasize the transmission
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Maus II‚ a book by Art Spiegelman about him and his father talking about his life in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. His father had a great story about how he survived and what he did to stay on peoples “good sides”.There are many symbols in the story including the different animals that each mean something. There are the dogs‚ the cats‚ the mice‚ and the pigs. Then there is the relationship between Artie and his father‚ Vladek. Vladek was a Holocaust survivor‚ looping his way around
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happened to follow was equally as terrifying‚ for they lost everything during these years‚ and once it was over they all had to start from the ground up. Artie Spiegelman is the author of MAUS‚ and the son of Vladek Spiegelman‚ a Holocaust survivor. Artie depicts very real accounts told to him by his father‚ many audiences were shocked at “…Spiegelman ’s goal of rendering his father ’s story exactly‚ warts and all‚ to make it more truthful‚ more recognizably human…” Reilly wrote in a 1986 review of the
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The graphic novel Maus is a novel because it deals with human experiences‚ it is narrated in great detail‚ and it is a connected sequence of events. According to Webster’s New Explorer Dictionary‚ a novel is “a long invented prose narrative dealing with human experience through a connected sequence of events.” A narrative is also defined as “something that is narrated”‚ by the same source. The plot of Maus highlights the story of Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor
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unbearable. The book Maus by Art Spiegelman depicts his father’s story as he lives in Poland during WWII as a Jew. It covers his life while he was hiding from the German army and after when he was brought to Auschwitz. Vladek Spiegelman was lucky to have survived the Holocaust because‚ of the dangerous situations he encountered‚ the time he spent in concentration camps and the deadly illnesses he contracted. While living in Poland during the height of WWII Vladek Spiegelman experienced many life threatening
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novels‚ MAUS I and MAUS II‚ Art Spiegelman provides his view as a second generation witness. He is a part of the generation that will transmit Holocaust stories to future generations. He is a witness to the Holocaust in terms of how it affected the survivors but he didn’t live through that experience himself. This is the concept of post-memory‚ which allows for Spigelman to take up the memories of the survivor generation and transmit them to future generations. Spiegelman comments on his father’s stories
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I Maus by Art spiegelman shows imagery. It resembles the quote from Hitler “The Jews are undoubtedly a race‚ but they are not human”‚ and shows that the different groups of people have essential characteristics that are represented by the animals they are portrayed as in the book. This just shows how low Germans are towards the Jews. In the comic book of Maus‚ Vladek tells some horrible stories of when he was in the holocaust. Artie (his son) is very interested
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The book Maus is about Artie trying to right a book on the experiences of his dad Vlaked in WW2 and the holocaust. In the book the characters are animals‚ the Jews are mice and the Nazi were cats which symbolizes the dog is superior then the cat. In Art Spiegekman’s Maus‚ Vladek is depicted as intelligent‚ brave‚ and thoughtful. Vladek is very intelligent throughout the whole book which helped him survive. Vladek always knows when to go out to search for food or to move to a different place. For
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