A Game of Cat and Maus Maus and Maus II are both very powerful and moving graphic novels. Both of which discuss one of the worst tragedies known to mankind. Spielgelman used the graphic novel form because it came natural to him‚ however he probably also used it as a way to get a larger audience and to make the subject matter a little less intimidating. However‚ Spielgelman’s use of animals to represent the different races helps the reader better understand the situation in a somewhat entertaining
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War is one of the most difficult things to perceive. Learning from textbooks and in class one isn’t usually gifted with first person perspective‚ leaving out much detail. Thankful I had the chance to read Muas 1 by Art Spiegelman‚ and Watch the first hand experience of a related child‚ now as an adult‚ in Duaghter of Danguang. Both this novel and film elaborated on not only how war can change a home yet your family‚ and how war can mentally skew your perception. Looking into politics today many connections
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their ancestors. For Art Spiegelman‚ author of Maus‚ this was the struggle. Growing up with survivor parents exposed him to the presence and absence of the Holocaust in his daily life‚ causing confusion and great amounts of self-imposed guilt and blame. This havoc led to an underdeveloped identity early on—a lost and prohibited childhood‚ a murdered one. The effect of having survivor parents was evident in Art’s search for his identity throughout Maus‚ from the memories of his parent’s past and through
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Sarah Jane Arma Odal First essay: Maus Date: February 23‚ 2013 “Holocaust survivor” Art Spiegelman’s famous book Maus tells a story about the Holocaust that happened during the Second World War that killed many people‚ mostly Jews‚ and the relationship of the author with his father. Aside from that‚ a big part of his book is about how the author’s father‚ Vladek‚ miraculously survived the Holocaust. As the story goes on‚ we will see how Vladek uses resourcefulness‚ his will and determination
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Maus is a comic book that illustrates the story of Vladek Spiegelman’s life‚ his survival of the Holocaust and his life in New York many years later‚ through interviews with his son‚ Art Speigleman. Most of the descriptions of Auschwitz and the Holocaust come from what Vladek tells his son Artie. This format of the book allows the reader to experience a more personal and real view of the Holocaust. Art decided to tell the story of the Holocaust primarily through Vladek’s perspective in a comic book
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It doesn’t require a psychiatrist to identify in Maus I that Vladek possesses many of the qualities which could be typically used to portray a survivor. Most of which are qualities emblematic not necessarily only of a survivor of the holocaust but a survivor of any great life or death struggle. His words and actions toward Art and especially Mala tacitly reveal a man still deeply impacted by tragic experiences decades later. Through his life story we are able to ascribe Vladek’s various tendencies
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In his graphic novels‚ MAUS I and MAUS II‚ Art Spiegelman provides his view as a second generation witness. He is a part of the generation that will transmit Holocaust stories to future generations. He is a witness to the Holocaust in terms of how it affected the survivors but he didn’t live through that experience himself. This is the concept of post-memory‚ which allows for Spigelman to take up the memories of the survivor generation and transmit them to future generations. Spiegelman comments
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Final essay (Maus I) Art: a true Holocaust survivor. Though he was born in Sweden after the war and did not experience the Holocaust personally‚ his life is deeply affected by the event‚ both directly and indirectly. To begin with‚ Art is troubled by nightmares and fears of the Holocaust‚ as he fantasizes when he was a child about certain degrading happenings. Secondly‚ he is impacted by the intense‚ traumatizing toll the Holocaust had on his father‚ which‚ subsequently‚ was transferred onto him
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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
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writing stories and sharing it with an audience‚ the writer is able to share his experience in the world. In other novels‚ however‚ the novelist may create a character to stand in for the audience as the character communicates his traumatic story. In Maus by Art Spiegelman‚ the traumatic experience is being told by Spiegelman’s father and Spiegelman creates himself as a character in the book to be a stand-in for
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