death. Elie lived day by day, not knowing if he had just eaten his last meal, or dug his own grave. This short novel shares many qualities with the graphic novel, Maus. Although Maus is portrayed through very different characters and writing styles, they share the same evil. A monster named Hitler, who changed the world forever. While Maus and Night are two very different books, they share the
MAUS, a Holocaust survivor story, written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, explores many intriguing and engaging features of the comic book genre to express the themes of racism, survival and the ties between the past and the present. MAUS is a graphic novel, illustrated and written around the story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor called Vladek, whose experience followed many of the perils and devastation of the time. Art Spiegelman, the son of Vladek, uses Vladek’s story to portray the themes of
single 'apparent' truth that has been presented to us. Very few people even consider the possibility of balanced humans, which is ironic and helps us realize that we look at people and sometimes even entire nationalities in a very cinematic style. Maus by Spiegelman has presented a very honest and unbiased view of both sides, through a Jew's perspective. He has shown us a full range of human behavior – pusillanimity and barbarity, certainly, but also intrepidness and integrity. The Nazi regime
becomes a victim of unrequited love that he breeds in his mind and carries on nursing it on daily basis though he knows it very well that it is useless for him. Written in a post-modern romantic style, James Joyce has beautifully used first person narrative of a young teenager who falls victim to the romantic ideals of his imagination. His imagination casts a shadow of the his friend Mangan's sister to whom he starts idealizing. The plot of the story revolves around this teenager who loves Mangan's
In the graphic novel, Maus, Art Spiegelman illustrates the life of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Holocaust survivor. While regularly visiting his father’s home in Rego Park, Spiegelman interviews his father as he explains his experience in the Holocaust with the purpose of illustrating and sharing his story. Spiegelman incorporates lots of detail when sharing his father’s story, including the past and the present which allows the readers to understand the effects of the tragedy on Vladek’s life