Essay On Maus, Night, And Life Is Beautiful

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Holocaust Essay The Holocaust was a terrible event in Europe that will be remembered forever. During this event many people died. However those who did survive the Holocaust had their own unique ways to stay alive during this dark time. In Maus, Night, and Life is Beautiful the characters in all three works had own unique way to survive. The characters in these worked survived by hiding, by sticking to one another, and by turning something as serious as the Holocaust into a game. In the book Maus by Art Spiegelman, the characters hid to stay alive throughout the story. This technique was used by many other Jewish people during the Holocaust; however the characters in Maus had many cleaver ways to hide from the Nazis. An example of how the…show more content…
In the movie, the father Guido and his son Giosué are taken by Nazis. Instead of Guido telling his son, the truth he tells Giosué "You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun" (Life is Beautiful). This technique saves Giosué during the Holocaust for a couple reasons. The first reason is that Giosué was more worried about winning the game then he was on staying alive because he did not think about the possibility that he could be killed. The other reason way this technique worked and saved Giosué was because he did everything his father told him to do because he thought that would help him win the tank. An example of Giosué listening to his father was when Guido says, "Go hide in that box, quick! Don't come out. You're not to come out until it's completely quiet and nobody is in sight, just to be safe"(Life is Beautiful). Due to Giosué listening and doing was his father told him to do he survived the Holocaust. Almost everyone knows about the Holocaust and how horrible a thing it was. However many people don't realize how much work and thought it took to survive it. In all three of these works, they had unique ways to survive the Holocaust. They had something as easy as hiding and sticking to one another and things as complicated as turning a terrible event into a playful

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