The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that is based on events at the Overlook Hotel where the Torrance family is snowed in for the winter which leads to some unfortunate events. Maus I: a Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History is a 1986 graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the story of his father during the Holocaust. Both of these novels are good stories that are filled with episodes and events that are demonstrated differently. Although the plots of The Shining and Maus 1 bear some minor similarities, the difference between them are more clear, which includes whether the plot is linear and sequential, and the use of stream of consciousness, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. The novel Maus I is story within a story so it goes back and forth from the present and the past, which means the plot is not completely linear and sequential. In the other hand, the novel The Shining is more linear and sequential than Maus I. Both of the novels contains flashbacks and has foreshadowing but The Shining has more foreshadowing than Maus I but less flashbacks. The Shining clearly includes stream of consciousness while in Maus I it is not.
In The Shining, the plot is sequential and linear. The plot is a typical pyramid structure with a steeper falling action. The novel starts with the exposition which states who the novel is about, which in this case is the Torrance family, their background, their characteristics, the setting of the story, and what the problem might be. This goes on until they start to settle in the Overlook Hotel. Then it goes on to the rising actions, which are the supernatural events that happened like the shining with Danny and Holloran, room 217, the hedges, and the elevator incident. Then it reaches the cli...
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...th from the past and present it gives the reader a better understanding of how not only it has effected him but also his son Artie and Anja. A stream of consciousness was not very much used in Maus I because everything was told as a story.
Maus I and The Shining are completely different types of novels, one graphic and the other horror. The differences between the plots of both are more pronounced. One of them has the typical pyramid structure plot while the other has more of a half pyramid and being continued in Maus II. The Shining is sequential and linear and Maus I is not sequential and non-linear. Flashbacks are more essential to Maus I and foreshadow is more to The Shining.
Works Cited
King, Stephen. The Shining. New York: Doubleday, 1977. Print.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus I: a Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print.
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The comparisons and contrasts between The Hiding Place and Night. Both books were written with struggles, tenderness, agony, and fear in mind. Of these two books only one comes out and realizes that what they have gone through was not a cruse but some what a blessing from God, Himself. The struggles both face is more than just man against man but it is also a struggle within to find who they truly are and whom they truly believe in. Both main characters, Eli and Corrie, faced something they never knew they could face but only one comes out stronger than the other.
Art Spiegelman's Maus II is a book that tells more than the story of one family's struggle to live thought the Holocaust. It gives us a look into the psyche of a survivor's child and how the Holocaust affected him and many other generations of people who were never there at all. Maus II gives the reader a peek into the psyche of Art Spiegelman and the affects of having two parents that survived the Holocaust had on him. Spiegelman demonstrates the affects of being a survivor's child in many ways throughout the book. Examining some of these will give us a better understanding of what it was like to be a part of the Holocaust.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. New York City:
In Conclusion, Maus and Anne Frank are similar in certain ways but they still have their own unique differences. Some of the differences were that Maus uses animal figures instead of real people, whereas Anne Frank uses real people, also Maus jumps back and forth in time, whereas Anne Frank remains constant. There were many similarities between these two books, such as; they both are true stories, they both involve struggle and suffering, and a major similarity between the two books was the main characters facing conflicts with one or both of their parents. In comparison reading both of these books exceeded my knowledge on the holocaust and taught me what it feels like to survive the most terrifying event in history, the Holocaust.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: a Survivor’s Tale : And Here my Troubles Began. New York:
In the beginning of Maus the reader is thrown into a scenario of the Author, Art's, many visits to his
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For my technical essay I am going to talk about the movie "The Shining". I will explore in
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: Maus I -- A Survivor's Tale; Maus II -- And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon, 1997. 86-139. Print.
Trauma—both in its initial occurrence and later retelling—has persistently provided the foundation from which several graphic novels have stemmed. Take, for example, two separate works by Art Spiegelman and Ari Folman. Whereas Spiegelman’s Maus recounts a survivor’s story of the Holocaust, Folman’s Waltz with Bashir instead retraces a soldier’s connection to the Sabra and Shatila massacre after decades of repression. Though stylistically distinguishable in content and presentation, both texts nevertheless approach their material through the same visual medium, juxtaposing historical instances of trauma through graphic representations. In doing so, Spiegelman and Folman have purposefully illustrated their respective narratives through a comic filter, allowing readers to digest the depiction of atrocities with relative ease. The resulting spectatorial distance, however, does not remain untouched by either; rather, it is used to produce a much more profound effect upon readers when they are suddenly forced to look past