Maus Essay

They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost” --Anonymous The worst time in history were the years of 1933-1945. A time where people were ashamed of their region and god. Authors Elie Wiesel, author of night, and Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, Write and share the true horrors of the holocaust and share people's stories. Looking at the qoute, powerful words fit right in with the way both authors use foreshadowing and figurative language to portray the theme of how tragic events brings…

The first picture book I looked through was Preschool Day Hooray! by Linda Leopold Strauss and illustrated by Hiroe Nakata. The story is about activities a child will experience in a typical preschool day. There is not a lot of text in the story, I would estimate and say an average of 5 words per page. Reviewing the table “How Illustrations Contribute to Picture Book Stories” I noticed several literary elements. The first literary element I noticed was character. Since the story is explaining…

Literature without Binds Although there has never been a set way for literature to be created, writings in America could be described as very cookie cutter up until the mid twentieth century. There was very little experimentation with form or content. Authors only felt like certain aspects of literature would be accepted, so they filtered their work making the writing simplistic. No one was willing to challenge these unwritten rules that bound writers to conservative ties, until the World Wars.…

or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. In other words were to demonstrate an event of our lives, and show how this event shaped us in some way. We had the option to express our event through the use of a graphic memoir like Maus, photographic/visual memoir like “How I Met Your Mother,” musical/poetic memoir like “American Pie,” painted memoir, or traditional. With all of these different styles I gravitated to poetry. My poems without a doubt spoke about a traumatic…

power to teach his followers that the Jews were an abomination and a detriment to their society. He was able to use his voice to teach the Germans to hate the Jewish people. By doing this people were convinced that Jews were bad people. In the comic Maus it is easy to see a prime example of hate towards the Jews that Hitler brainwashed into the…

In Maus II, and Persepolis, Artie and Marjane continuously struggle with their familial and cultural identity. Similar to most youth, they have a strong desire to understand their parents’ values and their ethnic identity. Yet, in contrast, they are trying to cope with severe political unrest that is causing horrific violence and supreme prejudice against their ethnicity and political ideology. They see their parents as “heroes”, but later are disillusioned by their parents’ imperfections.…

Victims, perpetrators, and bystanders all have a very key, very relevant part in wars. Some are worse than others but it can come down to opinion. Victims are the abused ones that should be helped. Perpetrators are those following orders and don’t always have a choice and bystanders are those that chose not to help another human being. Bystanders are the worst in my opinion. In each of the following books, there are examples of all of them. The Book Thief had Jewish victims. Perpetrators were…

Lymphoedema is a severe and chronic swelling triggered by a problem in the lymphatic system. It could be produced by a genetic abnormality due to underdevelopment of the lymphatic system or secondary to external factors as infection, injury or cancer treatment [1]. Being breast cancer the 2nd most diagnosed from overall cancers, with patients developing lymphoedema in 40% of the cases [2]. Lymphedema is caused by the inefficiency of the lymphatics to drain fluids and proteins, developing an…

teacher and she said there is a great book on my bookshelf. It is a graphic novel and it’s about WWII. At the time, I had no idea what a graphic novel was and why was she recommending a picture book to me when I’m in eighth grade. The book is called Maus. I found it and started to read it. When I got into it I realized it wasn’t a picture book that I was thinking about in my head. The beginning reminded me of the time I had to do a report for social studies and I had to record my great grandma…

“We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges” a quote from Joyce Meyers, which emphasizes the idea of success having different meanings to each individual. Success at this point of the semester is determined by the books being read and how they are interpreted, which demonstrates the difference between Seminar I to II because of the texts style and how the class is formatted to reach a higher understanding through: shared inquiry, critical thinking, and written and oral…