Distinctions are made quite clear early on with the use of animals for certain nationalities as a way to show the readers a race hierarchy and the creative decisions in the art style help to tell a not so typical tale of the Holocaust because of its portrayal of the legacy of the event; it has stories within stories from Vladek and Art. The comic offers a look at how the Holocaust affected Vladek’s life and throughout the retelling of the experience, Vladek’s relationship with his son is affected as well. As he took every detail and story in, Art tried to understand his father all while he tried to relate to him. Just as Art tries to understand the tragedy of such an event, we as the reader also start to feel the emotions and see the faults that we as humans are guilty of. This cause and effect style of storytelling reveals the lasting impacts of the Holocaust and its effects on the family and the identity of each member and helps distinguish Maus, above all the other Holocaust books in the sea of literature as well as gives us the incentive to learn
We see this with the close relationship with Miriam, who was a former East German who experienced life behind the berlin wall that brought great sorrow upon herself, which she has not quite escaped. At 16, being an enemy of the state was not a good start towards life with the stasi, being interrogated, and sleep deprivation was some punishment she had faced, until later on her husband Charlie had died mysteriously while in Stasi custody, leaving funder quite physically and emotionally affected which reflects back onto the reader, feeling sympathy for her tragic past. As we see through Funders narrative, this had agitated and brought suffering to Miriam for years after the berlin wall had been down, yet she still was stuck in her miserable past she once lived in. Another person who was unable to move on from their drastic past, convinced by the stasi Fran Paul was labelled to be a criminal, the price she had paid, missing her sons childhood, with him being on the west side of the wall and also worrying bout her respectability after a ‘criminal past’ the stasi had scarred her mentally unable to forget the suffering she had gone
Chastain Sarabia Contemporary History 10/15/10 The Holocaust Devry University Abstract This paper discusses The Holocaust along with how, why, and when it took place. It also talks about those who believe it never really happened. The paper starts off by giving a brief history of the event such as where the word was derived from how it was organized and when it came it action. It then focuses on one man in particular giving the history and view point of Adolf Hitler the man who was the voice behind the conflict. After it stems off into descriptive details of what the families had to endure during the time of prosecution.
In Buchenwald, Mr. Wiesel dies and Elie was too pained to weep. April 11, 1945, the Jews had finally been freed. “Night” was a very tragic and interesting book. What I enjoyed about this novel was that I learned real facts. For example, how the Jews were treated unfairly.
The losing battle faced by the numbats and the final question at the end of the book, “who will save us from the rabbits?”, leaves the readers’ in such intense emotion and thought. Both the narration and images of ‘The Rabbits’ convey and leave readers with a sense of shock, admiration and anxiety as the numbats witness and face such devastation through
Growing up I remember my grandfather passing away at the young age of 60, although he did not pass from Alzheimer's disease, he did battle with a chronic illness that left him debilitated. He was the love of my grandmother’s life and to see him struggle everyday was very difficult for her. Reading this poem to her brought back extremely powerful memories that she thought she buried away many many years
This idea that the innocent always suffer, is actually a false statement. In reality, those who suffer are actually the guilty. In the novel Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, attempts to show this to the reader. Throughout this novel, there are multiple examples of characters who suffer including Curley, his wife, and Lennie; however, these three characters are all guilty and
Receiving 17 days of leave, Paul travels to his hometown, knowing he must go see Kemmerich’s mother, “I was beside him. He died at once” (180). Paul is deliberately telling Kemmerich’s mother a blatant lie. Kemmerich died in a gruesome manner after he had his leg amputated. Kemmerich’s mother is not convinced that Paul is telling the truth, saying, “I have felt how terribly he died.
Horror film monsters are a representation of difference and could be positive or negative portrayal of that difference. In Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 movie Cat People Irena’s racial difference is looked as monstrous that leads to destruction. Irena is from Siberia and the cultural difference can be seen when compared to Oliver as he represents American culture. She is made to look as the villain of the movie because of her difference. The way she believes in the cat people form Oliver’s perspective portrays her as sick or crazy.
“But she couldn’t avoid a wave of fright as she remembered Santiago Nasar’s horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by the roots and threw the steaming guts to the dogs.” (p.8) The author in this line expressed Victoria’s bitterness towards Santiago Nasar. The way he described the guts of the rabbit was very raw and cold and using the phrase “steaming guts” makes the reader embody in the situation. The description of Victoria Guzmán’s action is rather emotionless. The verb “throws” indicates that she acts in anger and has no sympathy for the rabbit. To this scene is very closely connected the main scene of this novel.