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
The Holocaust is one of the most gruesome events of the twentieth century, if not the entirety of human history. Concentration camps killed millions of Jews under the direction of Adolph Hitler. Art Spiegelman’s poignant novel- Maus: A Survivor’s Tale- reflects the story of his parents, told by his father, surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman tells his father’s story not only through his father’s diction but also with tragic pictures. Spiegelman catches the reader with the use of literary elements
in and out of the Holocaust and exchanges with Vladek, show just what the dehumanization was like during the time and how exactly it shaped his father. Vladek, who had gone through the Holocaust, has seen and dealt with this discrimination first hand, but yet after the war he himself is quite racist towards those who are not deemed equal in his eyes. This brings Spiegleman to look more and more into racism during and after the Holocaust. He critiques it within his story to show how dehumanization is
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 was discriminative against the Jews. Have you ever thought of the differences in this discrimination based on gender and age? Yes, it is true. Children, women, and men were all treated differently by Hitler's regime. Spiegelman has been able
No one could have predicted that he would be the responsible for the Holocaust; a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Hitler’s Nazi regime and its collaborators. Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, the son of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors, uses his father’s stories of the Jewish genocide to create Maus, a first hand account of the Holocaust told through casual interviews with his father. Art Spiegelman incorporates information most authors would exclude from their work
key role in any family, but they’re especially prevalent in the Spiegelman family. The Holocaust cuts a drastic line through the Spiegelman family and cuts off possibly hundreds of branches off their family tree. Art Spiegelman’s effort in Maus is not only to tell his father’s individual Holocaust survivor story, but also to make sense of his family history that has become mangled by tragedy. Simultaneously, Spiegelman is displaying how his heritage affects the present day (in this case the present
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