Compare and Contrast Essay

“The Pianist” by Wladyslaw Spilman is a extraordianry story about a man’s survival in the holocaust in Warsaw, Poland. The book explains how Szpilman survives the holocaust in Poland by hiding, escaping, and with luck. Szpilman is important to society because he explains the following topics in his perspective for them not to happen again, religious discrimination, human rights, and punishment in crimes involving genocide. Many of the issues raised by the holocaust continue to have an impact on the world today.

In the story Maus, the father (Vladek) is a man who survived the holocaust. His child Art is asking him what occurred during the holocaust and how he survived. His father had such a great amount of details and needed to open up to somebody. Arts father has experienced intense circumstances in the concentration camp and many individuals didn't make it out of there. However, his dad made it to out and knows everything that happened to the others who weren't as lucky.

Young men who are sent to a war learn the reality in a very harsh and brutal way. Both the stories, ‘The Red Convertible’ and ‘The Things They Carried’ portray the life of a young soldier and how he psychologically gets affected from all the things he had seen in the war. Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried,’ is more specific on the experiences of a soldier during a war where as Karen Louise Erdrich focuses more on describing the post war traumatic stress in her short story ‘The Red Convertible’. One thing similar in both the narrations is the Vietnam War and its consequences on the soldiers. From the background of both the authors it’s easy to conclude that Tim O’Brien being a war veteran emphasizes more on the

In Maus, point of view is told from both Art and Vladek. Vladek is coming from being a Jew living through the Holocaust, and Art is telling us his story after growing up with parents who lived through the Holocaust and how that affected his upbringing. Magda Suzanski writes from the point of view of being brought up in a strict home with a father who was an assassin and believing that she was a lesbian.

Jewish author Elie Wiesel once said “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Roman Polanski’s The Pianist successfully portrays this idea as he tells the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish piano player who spends five years struggling against Nazi Germany’s invasion of Warsaw, Poland during World War II. Although Szpilman and his family were incapable of preventing the injustice from happening around them, they certainly did not fail to protest it against all odds. Filled with significant scenes that capture the cruel behavior of the Nazis, The Pianist presents the theme of man’s inhumanity towards one another at a time where pain is inevitable and hardships must be endured.

The Holocaust is a tragic event that made history. It’s a memory that people do not delight in telling. Fortunately, there are few who gained the courage and strength to tell their story, Vladek Spiegelman is one of them. In the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, he writes a comic on his father’s, Vladek Spiegelman, experience during the Holocaust. Maus strives to teach about the Holocaust, but it is also about a painful memory in the Holocaust and the relationship it has with the present.

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This panel sequence ultimately conveys Vladek’s true intentions of attempting to have his son near him in his last days, however this comes to be difficult for him to achieve due to his difficult persona best summarized in the words of his second wife, Mala in which she declares, Vladek is “more attached to things than people” (Spiegelman 95). This greater attachment to objects rather than people as well as his tense relationship with his son is evidently due to the effects and trauma Vladek contains due to the Holocaust. This is further enhanced in a panel sequence in which Vladek and Artie fight over Vladek’s obsession with being resourceful with preserving his wooden matches that Artie used to lit a cigarette (Spiegelman 180). Thus, the tension present in this father-son relationship correlates to the Holocaust and the effects such had over Vladek that carried over to the way in which he treated and continued to treat his son over the years. This demonstrates the gravity of the Holocaust as its survivors experience side effects, trauma ...etc that break families such as Artie and Vladek. This relationship illustrates the humanity in it all

The movie The Pianist depicts the Holocaust in a way that gives the viewer a deeper understanding of it. The story of Wladyslaw Szpilman shows what it was like for a Jew to experience the Holocaust firsthand. In the movie, Szpilman and other Jews were first forced to wear the star of David on their shirts when outside. They were then sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Throughout most of the beginning of the movie, the Jews tried to make the best of their situation instead of fighting back against these ridiculous laws. Also, people who spoke up against the laws discriminating Jews were beaten or shot, which deterred further retaliation. Although Szpilman survives, his entire family is presumed to have been killed in a death camp.

The Pianist is not an over-dramatized production of the Holocaust but a realistic depiction of life for Polish Jews in the years from 1939 to 1942. During this period, over 400,000 Jews were confined to the Warsaw ghetto alone. The Nazis used the ghettos in Poland as a means of segregating and confining the Jews. They focused on economically, physically and emotionally draining and destroying their victims. With the underlying aim of extinguishing an “inferior race”, the Nazis implemented a ghetto system that ultimately served as a round up center for mass extermination. Jews lived in unimaginable unsanitary conditions, facing starvation and epidemics. Although from the Jewish perspective - at least at first - the ghettos were to serve only as a short time situation until Hitler’s regime fell, for the Nazis the ghettos were the first step in “the Final

Have you ever wondered if all of the different heritages and cultures in America would some disband and form into smaller states one example is the civil war were tho southern broke away from the union for varying issues well i think that What makes America stronger may break it up into varying states now until the end then decide if you support this claim or not. In my school reading we’ve read two books these are called “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen and “The Immigrant Contribution” by John F. Kennedy and ill explain the similarities and differences then tell you how it ties in with my claim.

Maus interprets the view point of Jewish survivors from the concentration camps Auschwitz during world war II. Maus reconstructs concentration camp life – from the brutal labor conditions to the infamous gas chambers, where it is estimated that almost a million prisoners died in Auschwitz alone. This novel also records the emotional and mental effect of concentration camp life on each individual. Rather than presenting either the guards as uniformly evil or the prisoners as uniformly good, we get a full range of human behavior. The audience gets to read about the cowardice, heroism , sadism ,but most importantly the lack of human value between different races. The survivors constantly talked about how nobody saw them has humans, which gave the Nazis justification for their crimes.

“The Pianist” is an astounding movie directed by Roman Polanski about a Jewish man’s life Wladyslaw Szpilman in Poland when Germany invaded during World War II, portrayed beautifully by Adrien Brody who won an academy award for this remarkable role. This film shows man’s desire to survive, regardless of the odds. It also shows how evil we can be towards each other. Not many movies are able to paint such a vivid picture of life in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland in the 1930’s during World War II. It is almost impossible to imagine the horrors the Jewish people experienced during the war, but this movie gives a glimpse into it, and how the war affected one man and his family. The invasion of Poland was the beginning of World War II, and there was nothing the polish army could do to stop this massive force, the German Army from advancing and totally occupying the whole country. The Germans had a highly advanced army, with modern weapons, and also the strategic know how to completely overwhelm and alienate the polish army. This essay will discuss the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman before the war and how during a time of peace life was taken for granted. Second, how war brings out the worst in people and that man will do anything to survive even if it means betraying those close to you, and joining the enemy. The lack of food during the war and its significance. Finally, the love of music is universal and it can be used sometimes to bridge a divide, in this case, it saved Szpilman’s

The graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, is a story of his father Vladek, but also of him interviewing his father about his experience of the Holocaust in the World War II. The story is divided into two parts, one is about the author interviewing his father about the past and their family life during the catastrophe and all the sufferings they have been through, and the other part is about the author telling his father's story. This essay focuses on different aspects of the story that I find most interesting.

Have you ever read a poem that cached your eye? Ever wondered how that poem is similar to others or different? Perhaps you read a poem about animals, the economy or someone’s feelings. The poems I, Too and The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes, have many important similarities and differences. One could have been when he was young and the other when he was older. He describes what he’s seen and done in The Negro Speaks of Rivers. In the poem I, Too, he describes what he wants to do. In both of these poems they cross a point where it is noticeable what they have in common. Both have very strong views, along with the positive attitudes that he has towards inequality and discrimination. He attempts to get