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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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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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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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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Evaluation of First Person Historical Comic Books and Their Conflict with Memory‚ in the event of Emotional and/or Physical Trauma. Discuss memory in Maus and Waltz with Bashir. In your answer‚ be sure to discuss (a) How memory functions in each work and (b) What you learn about conflict and memory by comparing these two works. Memory of first hand events has its biases including human memory reliability in of itself‚ imagination interference of events‚ and suppression of occurrences‚ along with
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Abuse and Trauma Cause of GI Illness? Abuse and trauma is a horrid thing to go through. They cause many pain and suffering. What if that wasn’t the only thing though? There have been talks of how abuse and trauma are both the causation factor of Gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses. The current study‚ “Abuse‚ Trauma‚ and GI Illness: Is There a Link?” which was done by Douglas A. Drossman looks to uncover whether abuse and trauma lead to GI illnesses and helps to offer guidelines as when to receive
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the horror‚ or maybe help others to understand it better. Elie Wiesel’s Night and Art Spiegelman’s Maus are two greatly admired works of art which are flooded with the shocking dreadful summary of the Holocaust works. During the tenth grade one of my favorite books was Maus. Another one of my beloved stories was Night. Although they are very different‚ they also have similarities. Art Speilgman’s Maus is a comic book and it tells the tale of Vladek‚ Art’s father. Vladek and his wife Mala are survivors
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Introduction Childhood traumas have been associated with many psychological problems later in life. Specifically‚ sexual abuse during childhood shows correlations with many different types of anxiety disorder. There are many theories as to why this is‚ but most of the prominent ones deal with memory repression. Freud first introduced memory repression when he described it as consciously taking an event out of their memory. Since the population of child sexual abuse survivors is to be 1 in 5 girls
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