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 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 of symbolism and metaphor as well as his art throughout the novel. With the help of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman is given insight into the lives
camps could ever be similar to a comic book about cats and mice? Surprisingly, the two books, Night (Elie Wiesel) and Maus (Art Spiegelman) have some very common components. For instance, the father-son relationships between Wiesel and Spiegelman are very identical. Also, the message the authors try to expose are very similar as well. Despite these similarities, Wiesel and Spiegelman have very different writing styles that add a bit of contrast to the two well written novels. The most similar
Normally, comics tend to contain messages that are humorous, relaxing or inspiring. The comic book Maus by Art Spiegelman, however, is full of dark and intimidating stories that took place during World War II. It is not a mainstream comic book, but it consists of several conventions of the comics genre that is found in the comic book Slam Dunk, one of the best selling comic in Japan of all time. () Both of them discuss the power of love, integrate realistic and unrealistic characteristics in drawings
writings of Art Spiegelman, Maus I and Maus II, readers explore the world of Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, during World War II and the Holocaust. The readers clearly see the way the Jewish people are mistreated by the German and Polish soldiers who were “trained” to treat these people in such a horrible manner. The Jewish people were forced to go through different forms of harsh treatment by the German and Polish soldiers, such as physical abuse, unjust killings, and starvation. Throughout both Maus I and
In Maus, Art Spiegelman uses a variety of “tricks” to bring about important aspects of the story. Some of the tricks involve the drawing itself, and how it can look naive, and un-polished, as well as others that bring about the honesty and realistic aspects of the story that he is trying to tell the reader. For example, one of the tricks that I found to be particularly interesting, were the instances that Art decided to draw the exact movement of his father, Vladek at the time he is telling the story
The graphic novel Maus gives a first person perspective of how it affected him as an individual and not as a whole group of people which gives the context of the novel a more personal feel. The emotions Art’s father, Vladek feels and experiences are brought out because of
At its core Maus is a story about family. History and heritage play a 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
Identity as Presented in Maus Throughout all forms of literature, identity plays a large role in the characters. This ideal shows how we, the reader, view them, how they view themselves, and how other characters in the story view them as well. But what if this identity gets lost in the mix, stolen from the character without them even knowing what has occurred? Written by Art Spiegelman, this novel presents a memoir esk story of the main character, Artie, and his father, Vladek, telling the story
The graphic novel ‘Maus’ written by Art Spiegelman recounts his fathers tragic story of the Holocaust depicted through a series of detailed drawings. Spiegelman puts his own unique spin on hitlers original metaphor using animals to represent races and nationality. Animals provide another layer of complexity to the story as the represent an animal hierarchy that ties in with the inhumanity of the Holocaust. Spiegelman dehumanise and subtracts emotions from the character by portraying them as animals