The Holocaust Analysis

     Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all the people that he thought were inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, because he wanted a pure Aryan State.

Vladek is depicted as a hero who shows countless acts of selflessness and generosity and a villain who is, “opinionated, tight-fisted, and self-involved”. (Brown 6) Art Spiegelman’s book Maus, tells the story of how Vladek and Anja Spiegelman survived the Holocaust. Spiegelman illustrates Vladek as a man who single-handily saved his family from starvation and Auschwitz in World War I. During Spiegelman’s interviews, we get an idea of Vladek’s darker side since the war ended. Mala to speak of her astonishment and disgust in Vladek’s character. Which leaves us to question how truthfully these stories are being told. In the end, Vladek’s unsuccessful heroism is a constant reminder of his failure; survival with Anja was always easier, after her death, Vladek pushes everyone away with his “guilt and manipulation” (Brown 7)

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

After the Holocaust on May 8th, 1945, a book called Maus was released which is revolved around survival. The author, Art Spiegelman intended the story was to reflect upon his past and express his feelings world how he had to deal life was at the time.The book is a story of Art’s father named Vladek, he tells his point-of-view to the world to show multiple struggles he had to withstand. The theme of Art Spiegelman’s book Maus is survival; Art Spiegelman shows the theme of survival by using tone, mood, and point-of-view throughout the graphic novel. Vladek is the main character of Maus and shares his point of view. Vladek tells a true story about how he survived the Holocaust and the things he had to accomplish to make it through alive. This book is based on a true story of what had happened during the Holocaust.

Anja’s depression affected her life and the Holocaust, and losing her son made it even worse. She decided she no longer wanted to live and committed suicide. Mental illness is real; people who lived through the Holocaust were majorly affected, and the characters in this story are a representation of survivors as well as mental illness effects. Artie uses the characters’ issues to address mental health issues. The characters become a symbol of their illnesses.

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.

Antisemitism, the hatred for the Jewish people, has been called the longest hatred in history. This history is deep rooted and has existed for thousands of years, taking different forms throughout its existence, and intensifying up until and through the Holocaust, to then diminish to an extent but still be prevalent in most societies. Antisemitism exists in different forms, religious, ethnic, and political. The presence of Christianity as the predominant religion in Europe can be noted as a driving factor in religious and ethnic antisemitism, as can the Holocaust. Whereas instances such as the Islamic view on Judaism can be

The experience of being in the Holocaust is hard to imagine. The physical pain and fear that a survivor of the Holocaust felt could never fully be understood by anyone other than a fellow survivor. The children of survivors may not feel the physical pain and agony as their parents did, but they do feel the psychological effects. For this reason Artie and his father could never connect. The Holocaust built a wall between them that was hard to climb. Artie makes an attempt to overcome the wall between him and his father by writing the comic Maus about his father’s life in hopes to grow closer to him and understand him better, yet he struggles in looking past his father’s picky habits and hypocritical attitude.

The books Maus I and Maus II are biographical comic books written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. In these books Spiegelman tells his father’s story of survival through the horrors of the Holocaust. Spiegelman simultaneously presents an inner story of the conflict between him and his father, Vladek Spiegelman as both he and his father try to come to terms with the past, and work to have a normal life. This feelings of tension and conflict suffered by Vladek and Art in Maus I and II is caused by a transitional and rebounding feeling of survivor’s guilt caused by Vladek’s passing down of his own guilt, Art’s guilt of neglect, and Art’s attempts to come to terms with his own guilt of survival.

Pages 158 and 159 from Mouse Trap, the sixth chapter of the first Maus book provide a detailed insight as to how Art Spiegelman uses layout, figures and text to tell a story of survival with “absolute sincerity in an unexpected form”. These two pages involve both the framing story of Vladek telling Art his story, and Vladek’s story itself. In these pages, Vladek specifically describes the moment of his capture and his first thoughts upon arriving at Auschwitz. These pages provide detail as to how Vladek is a survivor of the Holocaust, and more specifically, Auschwitz (against the odds), and the pages show Art’s survival of Vladek’s stern personality. Spiegelman uses the graphic novel form (which is the unexpected form) to accurately and honestly

After being in the annex for two years there were very few survivors. All of the people in the annex that got caught were shipped to concentration camps all over the world. Some of the camps were named Neuengamme, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen, some of these camps were worse than others. The only members that survived out of the camps was Mr.Frank, Miep, and Mr.Kraler, everyone else couldn’t do it anymore. After surviving the concentration camp and the war Mr.Frank returned back to Amsterdam and applied for dutch citizenship. A couple years later he got remarried to a women named Auschwitz survivor Elfriede Geiringer, which was a former neighbor to him. Mr.Frank lived a long hard life when the time came he passed away at ninety-one. Miep was

A powerful and provocative graphic novel, Maus, generates a Jewish individual’s life of grotesque and horror. With its ability of perception and interpretation, it tackles the main points of the ominous Holocaust and delivers a spooky aura to the absorbed audience. In comparison to Schindler’s List, the graphic novel shines brightly than the pale movie due to its realism and humor that is constantly present throughout the storyline. The novel has the ability to connect to the audience; thus, it gives an in-depth look and overall comprehension of the massacre that Spiegelman is trying to communicate. The graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, brings an honest account of the Holocaust to a wide audience because of its historical truth and intriguing viewpoints and characters that shows the effect and process of the genocide.

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.

Art Spieglemans graphic novel Maus showcases deep parent-child relationship divisions deriving from the horrors of the holocaust. Spiegleman does this by illustrating his strained relationship with his parents, Vladek and Anja’s whose personality traits were forged by the unfortunate events of their pass. Vladek’s cleanliness, his inability to get along with his son, and his cheapness exemplify this, as well to go along with Anja’s emotional issues all have a clear link to the events of their past and continues to effect lives negatively generation by generation.

Not only did that experience scar his father and the other Jews but as a consequence it also affects the relationship of a father and son because the past still have an effect on their lives. Not only does Spiegelman describes a historical event, but he allows the reader to imagine, visualize, to question and interpret what happens which is all the elements that allows critical thinking. However, Spiegelman uses the medium of cartoon to recount his father’s painful memories which reflect another form that shows historical events. Therefore, Spiegelman uses literary and rhetorical devices to create emotional appeal and logical appeal by allowing the readers to connect because he emphasizes the struggle of the survivor not just during the holocaust but in the