Singers Portrait of Warsaw’s Krochmalna Street

Ruth is one of the women favored by God to have her own book in the Bible. She is a woman that has given inspiration to millions of women and men alike in the world. In this paper I will be highlighting Ruth’s characteristics of faith, obedience, loyalty, humility and love that led her transformation to follow a true and living God. Secondly, I will be examining Ruth’s redemption through Boaz in contrast with Jesus redemption for sinners dying on the cross. Thirdly, how she became to be the great-grandmother to King David a kingdom connection to the savior of the world.

“At all levels this is the ultimate survivor’s tale - and that, too, of the children who somehow survive even the survivors” (i). This harrowing graphic novel creates bonds with the reader by using relationships between characters. The idea behind the story is to tell someone's perspective of a horrific event and how it impacted the lives of everyone, even today’s generation. The Holocaust is an influential piece of the story. Without it, this graphic novel would not have been written. The graphic novel aspect of the story is intriguing. It draws the reader's attention because they can view the content through the images Art has presented. The emotion of characters can be seen vividly throughout the novel. This is unique because it can appeal to a variety of ages. It can be relatable to many because of the relationships. The relationships established in Maus are those of father son, wife husband, mother son, including Nazi's Jewish relationships. In “Maus”, Art Spiegelman was inspired by multiple ideas, such as relationships, the Holocaust, and to tell his story via graphic novel in such a manner relatable to general readers.

War is a difficult time for everyone part of it, as a result of people losing hope. The hopelessness causes individuals to face challenges producing loss of hope, in the novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, Kenan loses all hope because of the horrific war in Sarajevo. Dragan also loses all hope as a result of the war. Kenan and Dragan are characters who feel as though life in Sarajevo has become very dull and are deprived of hope due to the atrocities of war.

In the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank we follow a young teenager named Anne struggling to grow up. As she is growing up the holocaust starts and she is forced to go into hiding for a few years. A similar novella titled Night follows Elie Weisel during his struggle during the Holocaust. This book is straight from Elie many years after the Holocaust, where he writes about all the pain and torture he went through as a teenager in concentration camps. Although Anne Frank and Elie Weisel didn’t go through the same torture and had different focuses, both felt value in their father and strength because of him.

In a city with a terrorizing war people often lose themselves and become hopeless and depressed individuals. Ultimately they lack an inspirational source to help revive them from their hopeless lives. In the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway uses the Cellist’s music to influence and motivate the struggling individuals to revive their true selves. In the novel, Steven Galloway shows the developing character roles of Kenan and Dragan, as they build their determination and optimism by rediscovering their lively and positive souls with the help of the motivational music played by the Cellist.

Human as a subject will be applied throughout the analysis of both stories. It will be used to address the notion of one’s ability to interpret the underlying religious themes in each story. Thought provokes human identity and it is essential to the

The manner in which an individual is raised can impact their lives forever. This idea is proven to be true with two characters from the works that were studied this semester. Although they come from completely different worlds, the similarities between these two characters and the manner in which they face the world can be associated with the relationships they had with their families. These two characters are Walter “Rorschach” Kovacs, from Alan Moore's graphic novel which is called Watchmen, and Antoinette, from Jean Rhys' novel which is called Wide Sargasso Sea. First, there is the character of Rorschach. Rorschach is a very angry character, who has a lot of psychological baggage that influences the way that he views the world around

While many might be hesitant of how appropriate the novel is for portraying such a tragic event, this novel can easily be said to be one of the most powerful, moving, and unique interpretations of the Holocaust. The novel is entirely in black and white, which in my opinion shows the darkness, rawness, and despair of those who endured the tragedy. Spiegelman's two-volume graphic novel records the struggles of comic book artist Artie Spiegelman as he interviews his father Vladek, a Polish Jew, about his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust. The work is made up in a graphic novel format of illustrated panels accompanied by narration and dialogue in a perplexed story. The novel consists of two primary accounts; the first account is a series of interviews by Vladek Spiegelman, who tells his story about his experiences during the Holocaust. The second account, and the one I will be examining, is a continuation of Vladek’s experiences in a Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz but also focuses on the author, Art. Within that narrative occurs a second minor narrative, which appears at the beginning of the second chapter of Maus II and takes place shortly after the publication of Maus I. It is a deeply personal and self-reflective story revealing the conflicting emotions of the author with regards to his father and the publication of

Art Spiegelman’s two part graphic novel, “The Complete Maus”, chronicles the story of Art’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. As the book opens, we see Art interviewing his father about his experiences in World War II Europe, a time of horror and fear that Vladek is reluctant to discuss with his son. The book is comic-themed and Spiegelman draws out all the situations and events to better visualize his feelings about the events and the trauma that his father experienced during the Holocaust. Consequently, the comic nature of the novel has led to a large controversy about the author’s intentions and reasons behind his stylistic choice. Some believe that Spiegelman is more worried about entertainment than history, and uses the comic strip genre in his novel to make the story more interesting at the expense of accuracy. Conversely, others believe that Spiegelman uses comics because of his art background, which allows him to tell the story more easily than simply writing out his father’s story verbatim. Whatever his reasons or intentions, Spiegelman’s novel allows the reader to understand the grim events of the Holocaust from a survivor’s perspective through a medium that distracts the reader from the horrors of the war.

Being consistently troubled with anxiety, stress, and depression, Franz Kafka has become one of the most known jewish writers to be alive. Within his writings, he seems to express his own feelings hidden beneath his mask through the characters he has created. In these short stories, a reader senses the emotions of sadness, nervousness, and other non-content emotions being expressed through characters or certain situations. A major complication approaching readers in Kafka’s short stories is to understand every interpretation within the lines of certain choices of words. For example, the interpretation of his everyday life and the struggles within it show the reflections of his childhood, and/or relationships that he has had within the years. Through his short stories, Franz Kafka expresses his unfortunate life of mistreatment and depression through words that readers and interpret and comprehend.

“I wanted simultaneously to understand Hanna’s crime and condemn it…” The book is more of a story about a boy trying to understand his lover, than it is a Holocaust story. Discuss.

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” Frederic Chopin said. Chopin is a pianist and a composer. He was born on March 1, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. Chopin’s mother was a piano teacher and his father played the flute and violin. At age 6, he was ably playing and composing tunes. He published his first composition at age 7, and at age 8 he began performing. His family engaged professional musician Wojciech Zywny for lessons. Then his parents enrolled him in the Warsaw Conservatory Music. Chopin studied for three years under Polish composer, Josef Elsner. By 1818, Chopin was performing in elegant salons and writing

Without this comparison to the tragic events of the holocaust, the poem would lose its somber and eerie effect, and its clarity and insight into the narrator’s

Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn by his Russian-Jewish parents. The family immigrated to Brooklyn in hopes of business opportunities, but his father had no luck and became only a small grocer. Malamud’s early life was unprosperous and misfortune. When Malamud was nine, he had severe pneumonia. He read lots of books and short stories in this time, which led him toward his writing career. Malamud’s experiences as a Jew changed the way he thought about writing. He put his culture into his books by religion, time period, and his own life. Malamud also has put made-up characters in his stories to represent real people.

It might not be as big and as famous as Rome, London or Paris, but on the map of European must-see sites, this place has been steadily gaining its right place. A City of Polish Kings, witness to the most important historical events, a source of inspiration for countless poets, writers and artist, Krakow (or, in English, Cracow) is now one of the most beloved locations for those who decided to explore and discover Old Continent from the Eastern side. Its popularity has been rising over the years, and while it is still considered one of the backpacker’s favorites, in 2013, it noted an astonishing number of visitors – exceeded 9 million tourists, becoming one of the main touristic destinations in Europe.