Imagine yourself 150‚000 years in the future. Another ice age is in full force. Temperatures are much colder‚ vegetation has ceased to exist‚ along with several entire animal species. The lion‚ once the king of the jungle‚ is no more than an alley cat scavenging for food. The great white shark- reduced to the size of goldfish. A new predator is on the prowl. The stingray‚ once limited to shallow‚ sandy beaches‚ has evolved! With it’s new adaptations the power of the stingray is unfurled‚ free to
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Primo Levi‚ the author and subject of the autobiography was arrested in December 1943. An anti-Fascist Italian Jew‚ he was sent to a prison camp in Italy and then deported to Auschwitz in February‚ 1944. He admitted his heritage of being both Italian and Jewish. During the forced evacuation‚ 650 Jewish men are packed into twelve goods wagons. The trip is slow and tortuous; no food or water is provided and the weather is freezing. Of the forty-five people in Levi’s car‚ only four survive the Holocaust
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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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Survival That’s Worth the Cost In life people make hard choices -- difficult choices -- but sometimes to survive people don’t have a choice at all. During “The Cost of Survival” the author talks of two groups of people‚ separated by accountability. The first group of survivors ended up in life-or-death situations because they got the wrong end of the stick‚ so to say. The second group of survivors ended up in life-or-death situations because of risk taking stupidity. People in survival circumstances
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should rather be positive than negative. In both my article and Maus‚ people are selected (Maus) and auctioned (“People for Sale”)
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same. Masks are used to conceal an appearance and assume the identity of another. Metaphorically‚ masks can be used to hide feelings‚ to protect oneself‚ and to block out the outside world. Many of these examples are shown in Art Speigelman ’s Maus. During Maus‚ the illustration of masks is made very obvious. The features are pronounced and it is very clear that the characters are wearing masks. The illustration of these masks is not to be ignored- there must be a message hidden beneath them. Speigelman
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postmodern elements. From Maus contains elements‚ which identify a postmodern text. The elements used are the interrogation of the past‚ pastiche‚ the use of a non-linear journey‚ mixing of genres‚ the use of language and the high and low culture. The fragmented form and the use of anthropomorphism allow the audience to be exposed to a postmodern text. The use of anthropomorphism shows the direct way in which the author hopes to achieve his message. From Maus the text‚ which uses the low and
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The time of the Holocaust was a very brutal for not just Jews‚ but for other minorities in Europe and Russia. Over 11 million people died at the hands of Germany and its allies. Maus is a novel describing a fictional person’s account of the days of and before the Holocaust. The author (and narrator)‚ Art Spiegelman‚ has a father named Vladek that lived in Sosnowiec‚ Poland. Vladek has a wife‚ Anja Spiegelman‚ that has a condition that makes her need emotional support more than normal. He is a Jew
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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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Maus and historical reconciliation History always deals with things that are in the past. In this time and age‚ people usually have the tendency to consider history‚ simply as something that does not exist in reality anymore‚ things that have already passed. In Art Spiegelman’s Maus‚ the novel illustrates readers not only the change in the world after the war‚ but that it also has significant meaning for us in our day. He throws out a variety of subjects in his book‚ the generation before and after
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