Analysis Of Maus By Art Spiegelman

Traumatic experiences leave long-lasting effects on a person. Any experience that is negative can make people question ideas they think as true. Elie Wiesel's memoir dealing the changes and horrors he goes through at Auschwitz are all based on his own personal experiences. In Night, Elie Wiesel details his own horrific experiences in a Concentration camp that force him to change in many different ways including loss of faith, loss of innocence and gains more lovingness/ thoughtfulness.

Religion. Most of us have one and then again some of us don’t. Imagine if your religion was the one factor that shaped the outcome of your whole life. When you’re fifteen years old, you don’t have a real perspective on what happens in the real world. Growing up in a time when there is so much prejudice and hatred, it changes you as a person. The world around you is not subjected to the same things you are. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is wounded and hurt while others came out of the concentration camps stronger than they went in. I think that it is possible for two humans to be affected differently by the holocaust. Overall your character and personal beliefs are what help either build you up or bring you down.

Traumatic life experiences can have a variety of effects on a person, like constant flashbacks, PTSD, or depression. But very difficult life or death experiences can also seriously change a person’s personality. In Maus, Art Spiegelman explores how living through the Holocaust affects his father’s personality and personal relationships. By showing us Vladek’s story in both the past and the present, we get to see his experiences in the Holocaust changed who he is as a person thirty years later. On the surface, modern-day Vladek appears to be an uptight, miserly, crotchety old man, but by examining how his experiences in the Holocaust and what he had to in order to survive, we can see how they continue

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On December 16, 1942, some 400 young Jewish women were rallied in the main square of the camp and were mercilessly shot down. Not only did this affect the people who lived through the holocaust, it also affected everyone who just so happened to be connected to those arguably fortunate individuals who survived. “After more research was done, it was clear the adaptation and coping mechanisms of the survivors was affected by the aspects of their childhood experiences,”. More than one million victims of the Holocaust were

Can you imagine what the life likes during the Holocaust? After the Jews through this experience, almost died, just a few Jews survived, and the people who are the survivors, how would their life look like? In Maus, Vladek is a Jew who was through the process of the Holocaust. After the end of WWII, he was one of the rare survivors from the Holocaust. Through the Maus, it is easy to see what did he change from the past to the present and his life after the Holocaust. “Like an atom bomb that disperses its radioactive fallout in distant places, often a long time after the actual explosion, the Holocaust continues to contaminate everyone who was exposed to it in one way or another”( Kellermann). It is not a temporary

Being a victim is something many people struggle with each day. Having experiences that can harm or injure one is life changing, and it is usually not for the better. It harms people in mental and physical ways.Victim experiences are scary and usually end up with innocent people dying, living in fear, and remembering all the tragedies. Many people live in fear because of the harsh times they went through. The movie Schindler's List won an Oscar for portraying the events that happen during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor wrote a memoir on his experiences during the camps he was put into and how it changed him. Pearl harbor was a tragic attack on Hawaii that only last two hours, but was extremely devastating. All of these life changing events happen, because one

The Holocaust was a traumatizing and depressing time period in history due to the Nazis in the leadership of their dictator Adolf Hitler. The Nazis were a Political Party during World War ΙΙ from 1941 through 1945. Many Jews during this time were discriminated, murdered, and humiliated in front of many other Jews and Germans. “Six million Jews died in a merciless way at the hands of the Nazis” (Sherbok 1). The Holocaust is an unforgettable period in history that left a scar on many Jews including Vladek. Vladek was a Jew and a survivor of the Holocaust that experienced and witnessed several tragedies during this time. The war was

People can often be stronger than what they think they are when faced with harsh, bestial, and generally unpleasant conditions. Many of the people who have endured the Holocaust, or passed trying, have tolerated the absolute maximum amount of torture mentally, physically, and spiritually as well. While it may be impossible to think that people of this time could survive the savage conditions of the Holocaust, some may actually possess the willpower to push through. One would like to open with this quote from the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, “We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything- death, fatigue, our natural needs” (Wiesel 87).

Born from that very same heart came forth a devoted being which even at the verge of death only thought of happiness for himself, his family, and to those who were victimized by the Holocaust. Facing the horror of the concentration camp never extinguished his main perspective “I tried to live my life in such fashion, so that in my last hour, I would rather be happy than fearful [...] I found happiness within me, resulting from the realization, that his fight was worth it” said by Witold Pilecki. Hence why even through death heroism should never be forgotten, no matter how long ago it was; it would be

Survivors like Elie Wiesel prove that the good side of human nature can arise even during times as malevolent as the Holocaust. Elie used certain tools of survival, such as love for family. This is seen when Elie and his father are on the train to a concentration camp, and the dead are periodically thrown off the train. At one stop, Elie’s father appeared to be a corpse. Elie screamed at the men who tried to throw his father out of the train. Elie hit him several times to try and wake his father up, and his father eventually woke up (Wiesel 98-99). This action shows the survivor quality of love for family because Elie depends on his father’s companionship and his father depends on Elie to survive. They

The Holocaust can be described by facts, pictures, history lessons, among others, that can make a strong and lasting impression on an individual. However, testimonies are when the true horrors of this event become real. Testimonies are personal. Their authentic emotions, thoughts, and feelings are wrapped up in a little box with a red bow and given to the public as a fragile gift. Survivor Manya Friedman wrote, “I had little confidence when I started. My hands were so shaky I could barely read my own writing. As I started writing, I was given confidence, support, and encouragement. If I can do this, then you can too” (“The Transition”). Due to her strength and many others, individuals who weren’t affected by the holocaust are fortunate to be provided with such thoughtful insight about how the lives of these Jewish individuals were affected and remain affected. Even so, their experiences are something we will never be able to fathom.

Imagine yourself almost naked in a place you don’t know where with other almost naked people you don’t know. You were a prisoner that was worked to death and unlikely survived. This is what it was like to be a victim of the holocaust where more than 6 million people died. There are people that survived the holocaust and it taught them important lessons that they now teach to people who weren’t even born by then. These important lessons can help make sure a genocide like the holocaust never happens again.

“Well, I can't convince her on the phone. I’ll come down by train on Friday after work” (21) Vladek was willing to solve their problems as Anja would become his wife but she created huge strains on their marriage as she would translate illegal communist letters for her old friend and her depression. Vladek continued to be protective and devoted to Anja as he would risk his own life to help her throughout her life and especially the war. His loyalty to Anja caused him to later blame Mala as Anja’s suicide caused by the Holocaust and his post-war trauma would leave him in an unstable state of mind. I viewed Vladek’s second marriage with Mala as a replacement for his first marriage with Anja.

In Maus, it becomes eye opening when we learn how many people Vladek lost during the war. These lose seem to weigh a lot on him and affect him in his everyday life. During one of Vladek and Artie's conversations, “Anja’s parents, the grandparents, her big sister Tosha, Little Bibi, and our Richieu… All that is left, it’s the photos. (Spiegelman, Page 275, Panel 7).