Illustrations are an essential component of graphic novels in expressing the importance of scenes and qualities of characters within the author and illustrator’s work. Throughout the graphic novel‚ Maus I‚ the author and illustrator‚ Art Spiegelman‚ exhibits differentiating tactics in pursuance of the audience gathering visual information to determine whether or not a scene is really one of importance. For example‚ throughout the novel Art and his father‚ Vladek‚ are conducting interviews based on
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write about him because he has been a significant person in my life‚ and I wanted to know what he went through to really appreciate him being there for me. Throughout the process of this project‚ i have learned another perspective on life. Just like in Maus‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ Art learns about another perspective from the holocaust. I feel as if it would have been easier if I had written this in a traditional text format. The reasoning behind this is because there are so many details my father gave me
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Johnny Appleseed Ms. Collins English‚ Period 8 May 27‚ 2013 Title There is an abundance of symbolism in Maus I by Art Speigelman. This Graphic Novel features Vladek Speigelman and his family during the Holocaust‚ from when he first meets his wife Anja Speigelman‚ to their journey to a concentration camp. Vladek and his family are Jewish and are therefore portrayed as mice. The Germans and/or Nazis are cats‚ and the Americans are the Dogs. The people who are Polish are pigs. These animals
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“MAUS” Commentary: Page 82-83 ‘’MAUS’’ is a two part story written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. He started working on the book in 1978 and the first part was published in 1986. Spiegelman retells his father’s story within his own life story. In this graphic novel the author Art Spiegelman uses very original and interesting ways of designing his story in order to show the past and the present. By using different illustrations for the past and present‚ Spiegelman can display more easily the
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interest lies within his family‚ especially his wife‚ Anja‚ believing wholeheartedly that “until the last moment (they) must struggle together!” His trust in their fate was very much so correlated with his love‚ “need” for her. Notably‚ his drive in comparison to Anja‚ is completely opposite. Anja endures the deaths of and outlives several of her family members‚ including her own son‚ Richieu. Even so‚ Vladek perseveres and strives to motivate his wife through
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Character List- round or flat Art Spiegelman- r * Art Spiegelman is the author and narrator of Maus‚ and also one of the story’s main characters. * Born in Stockholm after the Holocaust‚ he is the only surviving child of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman. * He is married to Francoise‚ a French woman who converted to Judaism upon their engagement. * Maus centers around two primary narratives: Vladek’s experiences as a Jew in World War II Poland‚ and Art’s relationship with his aging father
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November Story and November night‚ Edinburgh November Story and November night‚ Edinburgh are two poems that differ in several ways but are essentially similarly themed. Both poems are similar in the way that they use personification to emphasise the weather. Both poems use animal imagery and people to emphasise how bad the weather actually is. The poem November story‚ by Vernon Scanell is from the writer’s point of view and is about a man who is in the wincing cold and sees a man‚ “a victim of
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Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita left me absolutely stunned‚ in awe of what I had just witnessed. I found both of these films to be unspeakably beautiful‚ and in my opinion‚ the best out of all Fellini’s major motion pictures which I have attempted to view this semester. Both films are unmistakably "Fellini" in the characteristic that define his films‚ especially through the world of fantasy‚ and deserve a thorough comparison. In La Dolce Vita‚ we are given a glimpse of a filmmaker
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myself and future family. This idea of meaning in life is presented in Viktor Frankl’s concept of logotherapy. Logotherapy supports the belief that when we find a purpose in life‚ it helps us sustain oneself. Two texts which present logotherapy are Maus and the film Life Is Beautiful. These texts present how the concepts of logotherapy can be used to maintain optimism despite horrific conditions. Logotherapy means therapy through finding meaning. It explains that our primary
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Comparison: "The Jade Peony"‚ "Horses of the Night"‚ Masque of the Red Death" I noticed that i enjoyed most of the storys not only for the obvious reasons such as good characters ‚ mood‚ and imagery but also because of writing style and fluency. I noticed some storys I enjoyed reading even thought nothing in it really interested me too much‚ while other storys that were about topics I usually enjoy reading about I had to put down because I would end up going over every sentence two
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