Comparing Hemingway's Stories And Maus By Art Spiegelman

The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway and Maus by Art Spiegelman deal with the atrocities of war and demonstrate what one human being is capable of doing to another. But both stories provide a sense of salvation, especially through the way their main characters escape. In Hemingway’s The Nick Adams Stories, the salvation that Nick finds refuge in is nature. Throughout Hemingway’s anthology of stories about Nick, the reader sees how Nick is injured quite a number of times during his duty in the army during World War I. In “Nick Sits Against the Wall,” Nick has been shot and is currently leaning against the wall away from enemy fire. In “Now I Lay Me,” Nick is unable to sleep due to his recent bout with death and in “A Way You’ll Never Be,” Nick encounters a field full of dead bodies recently killed during a battle. Nick
The female view in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God suggests a changing sense of attitudes in American culture in many ways. Firstly, the story is told in third-person point of view from Janie, the main character’s, perspective through her narration to her friend Phoeby. She’s not only a woman, but African-American. The story is about Janie’s trials and tribulations in her life, including her three marriages. The novel is a celebration of African-American characters and is formulated around its female point of view. It showed a change in the attitude in American culture because of the way it portrays its characters. Hurston gives context as to why the major characters do what they do. Janie is searching for both love yet independence, Logan was looking for a wife, Joe wanted to be powerful, and Tea Cake’s need to travel. All in all, these characters help project Janie’s growth into finding herself by the end of the novel. It shows a change of attitude because of how all these characters help Janie develop as a character. It shows a in-depth story of a woman who faces many trying times but overcomes them in the