selective: all details are not created Equal * Be specific Avoid vague word: nice‚ great‚ terrific‚ awful‚ good‚ bad… Show don’t tell * Go for quality description over a large quantity of descriptions * Always keep your thesis in mind MAUS NOTES Rego Park-C 1958 1 Artie’s roller-skate snaps and his friends leave him 2 Artie goes to see his father Vladek‚ who is working in the front yard‚ Artie is crying 3 Vladek ask Artie for help and also why Artie is crying 4 Artie explains that
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Graphic Novel Maus‚ written by Art Spiegelman‚ is a graphic novel that tells a story within a story. The book portrays Art’s father’s experiences as a Jew caught in the middle of World War II. What makes this portrayal especially interesting is the way the Art tells the story in his father’s own words. Vladek’s accounts of what happened to him are displayed within the bigger picture of the novel‚ which is how these experiences affect his current relationship with his son Art. Maus is significantly
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page=Carl Nakazawa‚ K Sacco‚ J. (1993). Palestine. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. Satrapi‚ M. (2003). Persepolis: The story of a childhood (L’Association‚ Trans.). New York: Pantheon Books. Speigelman‚ A. (1986). Maus II: And here my troubles began. New York: Random House. Spiegelman‚ A. (1980). Maus I: My father bleeds history. New York: Random House. Ware‚ C. (2000). Jimmy Corrigan: The smartest kid on earth. New York: Pantheon Books.
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clear role models to follow. In particular‚ relationships between parents and children of the same gender carry with them gendered ideals of self and identity that further strain the relationship between the parent and child. Both Fantastic Mr. Fox and Maus look at father son relationships that are under immense strain‚ and how the characters discover their identities through working their troubled relationships out. Throughout both of these works‚ there is a theme of self-discovery as the means of improving
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Brenneis‚ Sara J. "Carlos Rodríguez Del Risco And The First Spanish Testimony From The Holocaust." History & Memory 25.1 (2013): 51-76. Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 12 May 2014. Spiegelman‚ Art. Maus Ι My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon Books‚ 1992. Print. Spiegelman‚ Art. Maus ΙΙ And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon Books‚ 1992. Print.
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In Maus 1 and 2 the main character Vladek Spiegelman is very fortunate with his luck and apart from his luck his health‚ even though his heath is some what poor it is a big life savior that keeps him living through out both books. As you can see my theme is luck and health in Vladeks life. His heath isn’t all that good because of his heart condition and the man gets stuck in sticky situations but always manages to pull out saftely and unharmed. In some ways he uses his health to pull out of some
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you want to look through the eyes of a Nazi German during the Holocaust‚ Schindler’s List is a great movie as well. Both mediums present the Holocaust in great detail‚ but you can feel the walls of the confined spaces that Valdek & Anja occupy in Maus more-so than that during the movie. The panels create a claustrophobic environment to visualize the story and creates a greater effect of discomfort for us readers. Even with explicit details of the child murders‚ gas chambers‚ oven cremations and
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Cartoons have been use for many years and its modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire‚ caricature‚ or mock different things. John Backderf‚ known as Derf‚ is a famous and recognized cartoonist “who works out of an unheated‚ attic studio in his Cleveland home‚ grew up in a rural‚ small town in Ohio and went to high school with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer” (“Bio”). He drew a cartoon in 1995 in which he presents an implicit theory
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stay in for their own living while it also caused some people to snatch or steal their money. Both of the importance of the role of money and the abuse of wealth from other people are well depicted in the survival story of Vladek‚ Art’s father‚ drawn Maus by Art Spiegleman. Money played important role in saving the lives of Jews during the Holocaust while sometimes it also led to the cause of dangerous situations. One of the positive ways money was used for surviving was by bribing people. When Vladek
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The comic book called Sex Criminals is the comic book with different artwork‚ plot‚ and genre that is unlike anything that has been read in the class. The comic book is full of black‚ cynical‚ and vulgar humor with nontrivial plot. The comic book has own specific color range that can be the indicator of time and different people’s speech in different time range as well as the colors were selected to hide vulgar meaning of the text and make the comic book more amusing and cartoonish. The role
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