Holocaust Essay : The Effects Of The Holocaust On Maus

“Why is the killing of 1 million a lesser crime then the killing of one

Although luck does play a role in the novel, the major factor that kept Vladek alive was his resourcefulness. Particularly, his ability to save items for the future really helped him to stay alive during the Holocaust. When Vladek was on a crowded train, Vladek used the saved thin blanket they had given him, and “climbed to somebody’s shoulder and hooked it strong” above the other passengers in the train. This helped Vladek to “rest and breathe a little,” because he did not need to fight for space to stand on the ground anymore (85). Moreover, the blanket allowed him to reach snow off of the train’s roof. The snow kept him hydrated, and he was able to trade it with other captives for sugar. In addition to the blanket acting as a spatial retreat, it

Vladek shows heroism in life threatening situations when everyone else has given up. After receiving a letter from the Polish government, Vladek leaves his family to fight the war against Nazi, Germany. After facing the terrible conditions of a P.O.W. camp and the back-breaking work of the “volunteer labor assignments” (Spiegelman 54) Vladek returns home to his family only to find their situation in shambles. In Vladek’s efforts to bring in money when there is none to be made; he constantly risks his life so the Zylberberg’s can live a modest life, compared to the luxury they were used to. When the Jewish families are forced to move to Stara Sosnowiec Vladek

If I leave a tip at an evening party, my father gives up cigars for a week. This is how it has been for twenty two years. Somewhere in Poland we had a farmstead. I’ve never seen it. It was the source of everything; the uniform, tuition, money for theatre tickets, entry fees for exams, and duel fee” (Embers 45). Konrad could have been jealous and envy Henrik’s financial status, but he still held to his friendship. Sometimes people make friends with others who have something they lack. This could be evident that Konrad is only friends with Henrik because he has wealth, while Henrik could be friends with Konrad because of his understanding of Music. Relationships could be built on a foundation of needs to fill in missing parts of one’s life, even if it is below the surface and unnoticed by the couple.

The Maus books are award-winning comics written by Art Spiegelman. They are the non-fictional stories of Art and his father, Vladek. In the book, Art Spiegelman is a writer, planning to portray Vladek’s life as a Jewish man during WWII Europe in comic book form. While Art gathers information for his story through visits to his father’s house, much is learned about their relationship and individual personalities. Through this analysis, Maus becomes an example of how the Holocaust has effected the lives of survivors and their children for decades. Survivors suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which impairs their ability to live normal lives and raise their children. By

First, forced to leave your home and everything they worked for to move into a

    In the face of Morrie's overwhelming compassion and tenderness, Ivan Ilych presents an opposite lifestyle. After a pleasantly carefree childhood he turned towards ambition and pursued an ever-larger salary and an ever-increasing social rank. Ivan lived without values and without attachments, easily moving between cities and jobs. He cared little for the great inconvenience of his family, and even less for his wife: "he hate[d] her with his whole soul" (Ivn, 139). Commitment was a prison to be avoided at all costs, a detriment to his proper and official existence. Genuine love touched Ivan only rarely and certainly not during the dying moments when he needed it the most.

The Holocaust is known to all of us in some manner. Maybe we know someone who survived this

The Holocaust of 1933-1945, was the systematic killing of millions of European Jews by the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis) (Webster, 430). This project showed the treacherous treatment towards all Jews of that era. Though many fought against this horrific genocide, the officials had already determined in their minds to exterminate the Jews. Thus, the Holocaust was a malicious movement that broke up many homes, brought immense despair, and congregated great discrimination. The Holocaust was an act of Hell on earth.

If you become greedy, you will want more and not appreciate what you have. In the beginning Ivan was content with what he had, but once he thought he had the winning lottery ticket, he became greedy. He dreamed of more property, new furnishing for the house, and a vacation. He dreamed of all the things he wanted, instead of being thankful for what he had. He then turns on Marsh and say that she is old and plain. Then he talks about how if their relatives were to come over they would want some of the money also. In the end of the story Ivan realizes that he has not won the lottery and has not won seventy five thousand dollars. He then becomes unthankful with what he has. He rambles on how their house is always dirty, and the food is always the same and does not taste good. In the end he is so unthankful and greedy that he decides to hang

As a child, my uncle was always spending money on things that he didn't need. When I was 10, he began buying tv’s, projectors and computers and he would fix them and then sell them but not all of the products that he would purchase he would fix so he would just put them in the extra room he had. A few years passed and the extra room became so crowded you weren't able to open the door to get in the room much less walk in it. As I grew older he began buying more bigger things like cars, he would do the same thing fix them and sell them. He began to overspend on the cars and his backyard is now

Madame Ranevsky neglects that she is poor and gives out money, which increases her debt. She was born an aristocrat and doesn’t understand the meaning of how money was earned. Her brother, on page 13, describes it as “scattering the money .” But yet he makes no attempt to stop her spending. Anya says, “She's already sold her villa near Mentone; she's nothing left...mother's got a footman now, Yasha; we've brought him here.”(Chekhov 5). This quote gives us insight on how malicious her spending habits are. She hires unnecessary help that she can’t afford. She herself says, “I had a lot of money yesterday...I go squandering aimlessly. [Drops the purse, scattering gold coins] There, I’ve dropped it all!” (Chekhov 19). The scattering of the coins is an actual visual of how she neglects money since she lets them fall to the ground, showing no

He ends his short story, the Bet, with the protagonist refusing the $2,000,000 that was due to him after 15 years of house arrest. This was all because of a bet that was made against a young lawyer that argues that the death sentence is worse than spending life imprisonment. Once the 15 years went by, the young lawyer refused to take the $2 million that was due to him. He had learned that $2 million would never replace the 15 years he did not waste, the 15 years that he missed out on. The young lawyer’s greed is self-taught greed, the young man taught himself that you should not be greedy for what you do not need. Chekhov also exploits his opinions on greed on another short story, A Problem. Throughout the story, Chekhov’s character Sasha has made a colossal mistake that affects the family name. The family argues about the fault, also looking for a muckrake. They conclude to forgive Sasha and pay the fine due for keeping the mistake a secret. After the chaos, Sasha forces his uncle to give him money, thoroughly changing the reader's perspective on Sasha. Sasha’s greed is selfish, getting out of a situation that could’ve gotten him in a lot of trouble, later, right after the conclusion was made, he forced money out of his uncle’s

He then started to think that his wife would only be careless or extremely careful with the money. Anytime he would try to spend it, she would become angry. The story continues with how he believed he was better than his wife and that she had “grown elderly and plain, and that she was saturated through and through with the smell of cooking”. He assumes that he’d be able to remarry without a worry. He became fully overcome by greed. The minute Ivan thought he’d be happy with what he had, he developed something else better that he’d want. No matter how content he believed he was with what he was privileged enough to have, he wanted more and improved items. This continued to escalate proving that since he was not happy with what he had, and he would not be content with what he would have.

During my lifetime, I have had my fair share of hardships with money. Being from a family who had 4 kids and was constantly taking care of sick elders in the family, we were very strapped and conservative with money. My family didn’t like to spend money on anything and we didn’t buy anything that wasn’t necessary. That is why I am conservative and cheap with money, always looking for cheaper options and better deals. Because of having a childhood where I didn’t spend money, this made me rather good with money, and interested me enough to decide that this would be my future profession.