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
He defines moral luck as a significant aspect of what someone does depending on factors beyond his or her control, yet he or she is still treated with that respect to the object of moral judgment. For example, if someone spent a night out drinking and then decided to drive home, whether the driver hit someone or not determines his or her moral luck. It is out of the driver’s control because he or she has already been set on the path
Pianist Essay The Holocaust was certainly one of the most gruesome periods known to man. With over 11 million people killed, this was certainly one of the largest genocides of all time. Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Polish Jew who lived in Warsaw during the Holocaust, and had firsthand accounts of all the death and torture happening around him. Through a concoction of talent, luck, and the kindness of his colleagues, Szpilman eventually escaped from the ghetto, and survived the Holocaust, with a lifetime
In the memoir ‘Why I write’ in 1978, Holocaust survivor says, “The only role I sought was that of witness. I believed that having survived by chance, I was duty-bound to give meaning to my survival, to justify each moment of my life”. Wiesel believes he was destined to survive so he can share his experience and justify every part of it. In his novel Night, with his father by his side, Elie Wiesel been forced to survive the Holocaust. He’s been through up and downs through the experience with God
The Holocaust, in which 11 million Jews, Gypsies, blacks, and gays died at the hands of German Nazis, was not perpetrated by a single, hateful person. It was an act of evil perpetrated by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. Participation in the Holocaust by such a large body of people leads historians and those studying the Holocaust to ask whether man is inherently evil: did each person who participated in the Holocaust have a deep-seated and passionate hatred for the victims? Some of the
advantage of his new short buzz cut and entered the concentration camp with the striped pajamas that Shmuel provided him. Bruno was set to go home back to Berlin, Germany that week and he wanted to spend his last adventure well. However, Bruno ran out of luck and was mistaken for a Jewish boy and he was included in a genocide with Shmuel and many other Jewish boys. Since Bruno never mentioned Shmuel to his family, Bruno was considered missing for many months but in reality, he was
“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.” This quote is from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan had many downfalls in her life, yet she still accomplished many achievements. She was, and still is, a famous successful writer. Through the quote above, Tan is saying that no matter the hard times that come into life, there is always something better in the future. Amy Tan affected American history and literature by showing her audience through
with not distinctions at all. It really hit my heart the part when the Manager of the hotel was driving back from the streets and he found all those corpses on the road, and yet he had to keep driving on the dead bodies; it remembered me to the Holocaust occurred in Germany where about six million Jews
In the Noh play Izutsu by Zeami (1363-1443) Buddhist concepts play a clear role in the poetic content of the text. In this poetry, the Buddhist philosophical concepts of material impermanence, human suffering (dukkha), and the unification of the spiritual self with the cosmos, appear throughout. These concepts also appear in the written words of Zen practitioners, whose poetry provides a window into the deeper Buddhist significance of the text. Buddhist doctrine begins with the diagnosis and cure