negativity? When dealing with conflict‚ more than often‚ individuals will resort to aggression. However‚ is that the best way? Events such as the Holocaust and the bombing of Hiroshima all test us on how we react. As shown in books Dear Mrs. Breed‚ Maus‚ and The Diary of Anne Frank‚ positivity is a way to go when dealing with loss/war. Positive thinking is one of the best ways to respond to conflict. The individuals in Dear Mrs. Breed use positive thinking when being sent to the camps. In Louise
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The Maus graphic books are award-winning comics written by Art Spiegelman. They are non-fictional stories of Art and his father‚ Vladek. Spiegelman demonstrates that all suffering does is cause pain‚ it does not create noble people. Spiegelman exemplifies this through his characters‚ for example‚ Anja committed suicide after suffering for the duration of the holocaust. Anja’s death along with the holocaust also made a huge impact on Vladek’s life. After all of Vladek’s traumatic experiences he takes
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1 Maus Script: Part 2 A Survivor’s Tale Setting: In Artie’s room at 7 a.m. in the morning. (Artie is lying in bed) (The phone ringing) Artie: ...Hello? (Yawning) Vladek: Artie you awake? Come down here I need help moving a chair it is too heavy to lift on my own. Artie: Dad it’s 7 in the morning! Can’t this wait till later on today? I need my sleep. Vladek: (Acting anxious) No! Must be done now. Come we will eat lunch together and I tell you more for your book. Artie: (Groaning)
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expose elements of fiction materializing into truth. Perhaps it’s the fogginess of memory‚ and sometimes it’s a lie a writer has been telling themself for decades. Nevertheless‚ autobiography has become a pivotal theme in comics. From Spiegelman’s Maus (which is near equal parts autobiography and biography) to Cece Bell’s El Deafo‚ comics has provided an expansive and multisensory medium with which to narrate reality. The multimodality of comics is what lends the medium to autobiography so successfully;
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us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in WW2‚ Marjane writes about her own life story when she was growing up in Iran before‚ during and after The Islamic Revolution in her
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James trost Per 3/4 La Category 2 In the book I was reading their were these two characters named Tito and Gus. Tito and gus were best friends since kindergardon. Gus was really funny and had alot of street smarts. In one part of the after Titos brother got shot Tito came home after school and gus followed him when tito went inside their was gang tagging all over the walls and someone was in his house. So tito went and hid under his bed. Then someone pulled him out and draged him outside and
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Maus: TSPEC- Is Maus an appropriate and effective way of telling Vladek’s Holocaust story? Thesis: Despite writing about such a heavy topic in such a deceptively playful medium‚ Maus was very effective in telling Vladek’s holocaust story because it shows rather than tells the holocaust from Vladek’s and Artie’s perspective while capturing both of their emotions‚ the drawings aide Artie in showing the metaphor of the power system‚ and makes reading Maus much more understandable. The drawings
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past. In Maus I and II‚ Artie goes through an interview-type process with his father‚ so that he can One of the main characters‚ Artie‚ was born in Stockholm after the Holocaust. He is the only child Vladek and Anja Spiegelman (his mother) that survived. His brother‚ Richieu‚ died as a child during the war‚ and his mother committed suicide in 1968 when he was twenty years old. He has a history of mental illness‚ meaning he has many issues with alcohol. His wife is named Francoise. Maus I consists
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themselves. This relates to the books Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Art Spiegelman because the characters of both books have to decide whether they are going to look out for themselves or if they are going to try to help out others. When a human being is faced with a life or death situation‚ they typically become selfish in order to survive because human instinct kicks in and you only try to keep yourself alive as illustrated in Maus and Night. Being selfish can take many forms. One form is the
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in black and white so that the colorful symbols stand out more. Maus‚ written by Art Spiegelman‚ is a graphic novel that shows an up close and personal perspective on the life of a Jew during the Holocaust. Many people hear about all the things that Jewish people went through‚ but what makes Maus different is that you get to read about someone’s perspective and what they went through every step of the way. Both Schindler’s List and Maus are two completely different stories and are told totally differently
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