Analysis Of Maus By Art Spiegelman

In the past many horrific events have happened that many people choose not to believe. One of those events was the Holocaust. Millions of innocent people died during this tragedy, but what about the people who survived? How did this affect them? A survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote about his experience during the Holocaust, and how it changed him as a person. In his book “Night”, the main character Elie went to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Throughout the story, he gained new character traits that he carried for the rest of his life.

Our first impression of Vladek Spiegelman is that he is a man of stories and a man of wisdom. His remark about friendship suggests his own past of hardships and foreshadows his experiences during the holocaust.

The Holocaust, yet another unpleasant time in history tainted with the blood and suffering of man. Human beings tortured, executed and starved for hatred and radical ideas. Yet with many tragedies there are survivors, those who refused to die on another man’s command. These victims showed enormous willpower, they overcame human degradation and tragedies that not only pushed their beliefs in god, but their trust in fellow people. It was people like Elie Wiesel author of “Night”, Eva Galler,Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser, and Solomon Radasky that survived, whose’ mental and physical capabilities were pushed to limits that are difficult to conceive. Each individual experiences were different, but their survival tales not so far-reaching to where the fundamental themes of fear, family, religion and self-preservation played a part in surviving. Although some of these themes weren’t always so useful for survival.

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

The aim of this book review is to analyze Night, the autobiographical account of Elie Wiesel’s horrifying experiences in the German concentration camps. Wiesel recounted a traumatic time in his life with the goal of never allowing people to forget the tragedy others had to suffer through. A key theme introduced in Night is that these devastating experiences shifted the victim 's view of life. By providing a summary, critique, and the credentials of the author Elie Wiesel, this overview of Night will reveal that the heartbreaking events of the Holocaust transformed the victims outlook, causing them to have a lack of empathy and faith.

In Art Spiegelman’s graphical novel Maus his demonstration of the Holocaust and its recollection in Maus was very emotional, affecting and the most expressing. The approach that the author has taken construes and magnifies the comical shape of telling history. It portrays Spiegelman dialog between himself and his father about his happenings as holocaust and polish jew survivor. Most of the narrative specifically focuses on Spiegelman 's difficult connection with his father, and the nonappearance of his mother who committed suicide when he was 20.In this essay I will be examining the experience of trauma and memory in Maus. Also I will be showing how the pain and trauma of the Holocaust affected Artie and Vladek 's diasporic memories. Trauma usually describes the association with chronological or combined traumatic proceedings to experiences that happen to others. These occasions are internalized circuitously through images, and stories and other recaps and reminders of their family’s occurrences. Spiegelman also investigates and addresses the load and legacy of distressing reminiscence on second-generation survivors. In the narrative Maus discovers and documents this behavior of dual memory. Throughout the story Art talks about the state of affairs in which his father’s reminiscences are expressed. The chronological and personal trauma produced by the Holocaust, and by simplifying the reintegration of the following generation to its past.

The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of the horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps, mainly Buchenwald, and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid, unforgettable, and shocking images of the past. It is beneficial that Wiesel published this, if he had not the world might not have known the extent of the Nazis reign. He exposes the cruelty of man, and the misuse of power. Through a lifetime of tragedy, Elie Wiesel struggled internally to resurrect his religious

In 1983 Aharon Appelfeld published a work of fiction titled Tzili that closely resembled his own personal Holocaust experiences. This work of fiction revolves around a maturing teen who is alone and on the run during the Holocaust. In Tzili, Appelfeld brings to life his characters, which include Tzili, Katrina, Mark, and Linda. Throughout this literary analysis Appelfelds’ memoir Story of a Life will be used to access the parallels that exist between Appelfeld’s own personal experience and his fictional work Tzili.

Does any human actually want to take responsibilities for the mistakes they made? Doesn’t every human want to feel bad for themselves when they make what the consider a mistake? Many people were traumatized by a horrific event that they were forced into, while their friends and family were all being killed and forced to work against their will for the Nazi’s. While many people were affected, not all of them were able to fully explain how hurt they were as it was something that was not easy to talk about for them. In a graphic novel called Maus, the author Art Spiegelman is trying to connect to his father and understand the hardships he went through during a hard time called the Holocaust. The author starts to talk about the Holocaust with his father and starts to learn how hard it was for his father, Vladek and his now deceased mother, Anja. His father and mother fought to not go into the camps until the last second, doing anything possible to stay away from them whether it meant lying or hiding with the rest of their family. When discussing this with his father he wanted to be able to tell his father’s story for him, as he was never able to do it himself. Not only does Spiegelman just tell his story with words, he tells it with pictures through a graphic novel, using unique techniques with the illustrations in order to explain how broken human relationships were at this time period. Art Spiegelman represents humans as being accustomed to animalistic behaviors as he

This site includes information on Jack Mandelbaum and his survival of the holocaust. This site is informational on his life and the way he made through the holocaust unlike the rest of his family. It draws the reader’s attention by going into detail about what happened and what it was like to be held at the concentration camp. This man was very lucky to make it out alive, he didn’t believe the sight on that one early morning when everything changed for the better. This author’s purpose was to give people an idea of what it was like there from a human beings eyes that actually went through all the hard labor. In this you can feel the reader’s emotions, overall he gave a great article on what he went through and how he felt after he got out

Spiegelman not only experiences guilt from getting commercial success, but guilt from being a survivor’s son. Even though he was not even alive during the Holocaust, his father’s experience become a lens that that Spiegelman views himself and his father through. While talking with his therapist, Spiegelman says “No matter what I accomplish, it doesn’t seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz” and his therapist replies saying “But you weren’t in Auschwitz – you were in Rego Park” (Spiegelman 44). Just because his father survived the holocaust, he feels guilty for acknowledging his own accomplishment. This shows how the events in World War 2 continues to not only haunt the survivors of the war but the generation with survivors as parents. Spiegelman makes it clear that it is not only children of holocaust survivors that are confronted with war related guilt. While talking with the reporters, he says

When you experience a significant event firsthand, you learn how to deal with it so the next time you encounter a similar event, you are prepared for the situation. Vladek Spiegelman, the main character from the graphic novel, Maus, by Art Spiegelman which details a father-son interview of Vladek who survived World War ll is a perfect example of this. Vladek was ambitious and caring before the Holocaust and was enjoying life with his wife Anja, and son Richieu. However, after being held in Auschwitz and experiencing these terrible events firsthand, the Holocaust took its toll on Vladek and instead of being caring and clever, he is now frugal and very depressed.

The books Maus I and Maus II, written by Art Spiegelman over a thirteen-year period from 1978-1991, are books that on the surface are written about the Holocaust. The books specifically relate to the author’s father’s experiences pre and post-war as well as his experiences in Auschwitz. The book also explores the author’s very complex relationship between himself and his father, and how the Holocaust further complicates this relationship. On a deeper level the book also dances around the idea of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The two books are presented in a very interesting way; they are shown in comic form, which provides the ability for Spiegelman to incorporate numerous ideas and complexities to his work.

The book seems to be a continuation of “Survival in Auschwitz” in several ways, but it exceeds the descriptive nature of that writing by using deeper analysis and a penetrative approach. Even though Levi states in the previous book that he was refraining from passing judgment on the behavior of the Germans during the Nazi period, he seems to go beyond a survivor narrating his ordeal, to fully examining the events of the Holocaust, accuse perpetrators and even pass judgment upon them. Thus, the book delves into the complex analysis of the relationship that exists between the oppressor and the victims, as well as, between survivors and those who died. Through the penetrating essays detailing issues on shame, power, morality, conflict and resistance, the writer offers the reader a condensed presentation of the silent but powerful emotions of survivors, as well as, takes up the responsibility to speak for those that

Graphic novels has lots of to express each of the characters way in its life, like in Maus II by Art Spiegelman. This story is about a man's life name Vladek during the time when the hitlers wanted to take the Jews into concentration camp. This story uses animals as people to tell the characters story. The theme of this story is “prey or predator, either both or one will die” this will explain what is happening to the people in the camp either hitler or jews. It will show how the life of being in concentration camp was like for the jews and how it can change a person's view of life today.