I propose to analyze graphic novels that retell past historical tragedies‚ specifically Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Although Maus was a critical success when it first came out‚ some Holocaust survivors criticized Spiegelman for making a comic book out of their tragedy. Thus‚ the central questions that I will be exploring in my research paper include: do graphic novels cheapen or trivialize the meaning of the events that they depict? How valid are graphic novels in these
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The stories Maus and The Woman Warrior that we read this semester seem very different from each other‚ but I think that they both contain similarities and can be contrasted readily. The Woman Warrior by Maxing Hong Kingston like Maus by Art Spiegelman deals with storytelling and tradition derived from racial issues. These books are not merely based on race though. Culture‚ identity‚ language‚ heritage‚ history‚ and discrimination are all components in the compositions of Maus and The Woman Warrior
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Good morning to fellow classmates. Today I will be talking about the usage of the animal metaphor to examine race in Maus. The metaphor of Jews as mice is taken directly from Nazi propaganda‚ which portrayed the Jews as a kind of vermin to be exterminated. The purpose of using this metaphor is therefore to undermine the Nazi propaganda by ironically going with it. So the Jews are depicted as mice‚ but Spiegelman shows the humanity of the mice – their innocence‚ their vulnerability‚ their tragic
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The holocaust is among the most notorious mass murders in the world‚ in which millions of Jews‚ gypsies‚ disabled people‚ and homosexuals were persecuted. In the graphic novel‚ Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ Spiegelman interviews his father‚ Vladek‚ about his experiences during the holocaust and reveals the afflictions of the Jewish population. Through his delineation‚ Vladek exposes the heinous methods the Nazis used against the Jews in hopes of exterminating
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For my Unit 4 Summative‚ I decided to create a poster based on the novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History. I created my poster in the typical flyer style propaganda that would have been distributed across Europe during World War II by the Allied Powers. During that time‚ one of the most common spoken languages in Western Europe was French. On May 10‚ 1940‚ Germany distracted the Allied Powers by attacking the Netherlands‚ Belgium‚ and Luxembourg. The Allied Powers kept their attention
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negativity? When dealing with conflict‚ more than often‚ individuals will resort to aggression. However‚ is that the best way? Events such as the Holocaust and the bombing of Hiroshima all test us on how we react. As shown in books Dear Mrs. Breed‚ Maus‚ and The Diary of Anne Frank‚ positivity is a way to go when dealing with loss/war. Positive thinking is one of the best ways to respond to conflict. The individuals in Dear Mrs. Breed use positive thinking when being sent to the camps. In Louise
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1 Maus Script: Part 2 A Survivor’s Tale Setting: In Artie’s room at 7 a.m. in the morning. (Artie is lying in bed) (The phone ringing) Artie: ...Hello? (Yawning) Vladek: Artie you awake? Come down here I need help moving a chair it is too heavy to lift on my own. Artie: Dad it’s 7 in the morning! Can’t this wait till later on today? I need my sleep. Vladek: (Acting anxious) No! Must be done now. Come we will eat lunch together and I tell you more for your book. Artie: (Groaning)
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The Maus graphic books are award-winning comics written by Art Spiegelman. They are non-fictional stories of Art and his father‚ Vladek. Spiegelman demonstrates that all suffering does is cause pain‚ it does not create noble people. Spiegelman exemplifies this through his characters‚ for example‚ Anja committed suicide after suffering for the duration of the holocaust. Anja’s death along with the holocaust also made a huge impact on Vladek’s life. After all of Vladek’s traumatic experiences he takes
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expose elements of fiction materializing into truth. Perhaps it’s the fogginess of memory‚ and sometimes it’s a lie a writer has been telling themself for decades. Nevertheless‚ autobiography has become a pivotal theme in comics. From Spiegelman’s Maus (which is near equal parts autobiography and biography) to Cece Bell’s El Deafo‚ comics has provided an expansive and multisensory medium with which to narrate reality. The multimodality of comics is what lends the medium to autobiography so successfully;
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us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in WW2‚ Marjane writes about her own life story when she was growing up in Iran before‚ during and after The Islamic Revolution in her
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