More than thirteen million people from over four different religions and races were killed during the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. That is more than half the number of people that died in World War I. The book Maus by Art Spigelman tells the story of a man who was a victim of and lived through the Holocaust. The Holocaust and Amenian Genocide are indistinguishable because of not only the amount of people that died but also for three more main reasons. These reasons are
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I believe that Art Spiegelman chose to depict his characters as mice‚ cats‚ pigs and the like because it was symbolic of the position of power at the time of the Holocaust. For example‚ the Jews are represented as mice. I believe that this is symbolic of the fact that the Jews‚ like mice‚ were being hunted and eradicated. Additionally‚ they were forced to live like mice by hiding and scavenging for food. The Nazis are depicted as cats‚ I believe‚ to represent that they were the “hunters”‚ chasing
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New Yorker Cover: 9/11/01 Writer‚ editor‚ and artist‚ Art Spiegelman‚ created the very controversial cover for The New Yorker magazine. Mr. Spiegelman worked for The New Yorker for ten years‚ resigning a few months after the September 11th terrorist attacks‚ living within walking distance from the world trade center. The cover of the September 24th issue of The New Yorker was voted in the top ten of magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The cover was
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commenting on the story as his father tells it to him. For example‚ when his father is retelling a dream he had about a voice telling him the he will be freed‚ “… on the day of parshas trauma‚” Art interrupts him to ask what parshas trauma means (Spiegelman 57). Although many see this merely as an innovative literary tool‚ I believe that this shows that Art‚ a member of the second generation of survivors‚ wanted others to know about the Holocaust as well‚ which gives not just his father by also himself
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normality. However‚ I believe that we should make such things completely abnormal. It is our obligation to eliminate such words from our vocabulary and to stop those who believe in the negative generalization of a group of people. When Vladek in Maus by Art Spiegelman calls a black man a "shvartser"‚ his true colors are shown. Due to Vladek’s mistreated‚ he felt the need to be racist towards others in order to give him
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Experiences shape a person “Man learns through experience‚ and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles‚ and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process” (Sai Baba). Just as Baba‚ who was an Indian guru‚ spiritual figure‚ mystic‚ philanthropist and educator‚ said; a person is shaped by different experiences. Some of these experiences are learned from school‚ some are learned from others
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In the novel Maus II by Art Spiegelman you hear first hand from a survivor of Auschwitz the experiences of the holocaust and the horrific consequences of racism. Race is something that has developed over time and is constantly changing. Race is something that is seen differently by different people. “There is a continuous temptation to think of race as an essence‚ as something fixed‚ concrete‚ and objective. And there is also an opposite temptation: to imagine race as a mere illusion” (Michael Omi
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Pianist” directed by Roman Polanski. Andrien Brody plays the charcter‚ Wladyslaw Szpilman‚ not to be confused with Vladek Spiegelman. If 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
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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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survive from the catastrophe. His saponaceous and suspicious habits would also be learnt during the suffering in Poland. As a result‚ he changed a lot by having that trauma through a painful way. On the other hand‚ in Art Spiegelman’s famous comic “Maus II”‚ he demonstrated that his father had a bad experience when the first time he moves to New York about black people. So the when the time Artie wanted to help the black people with a free ride‚ his father showed a series of prejudice and
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